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Storage Insights Ceph integration : To show all meta data

Full fledged Ceph-SI integration with complete meta data collection of the Ceph cluster including Capacity, Performance metrics. Also to include ticketing, advisories, L2/L3 view features. Samsung / Joyent customer has requested for this.
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Preventive alert for cluster key certificate expiration

According to the recent flash " IBM Storage Scale: An expired cluster key prevents nodes from connecting to the Storage Scale cluster resulting in admin commands failing to update the cluster configuration.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/71...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Oracle DB support on Windows for Spectrum Protect Plus

Spectrum Protect Plus ( actual version 10.1.0.3) is supporting backup of Oracle databases on Linux and AIX environments but not on Windows. It is not even on the road map. There is a big need to have this database vendor supported on Windows as it...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI - This is creating lots of confusion when they ask why values are not showing similarity and why there is big differences in val...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

Default Lifecycle Policy

Setting up a default lifecycle policy from the cluster management which would be in effect for every bucket by default unless the bucket owner puts a custom lifecycle policy on the bucket. This would in effect force the users to either set-up thei...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Planned for future release

User/owner name should be again a part of the backup information (ISP Server Database table backups/archives column “owner”)

After upgrading the ISP Client from 7.1.x to Version 8.1.8, the configuration on the DB2 Server is not compatible anymore.The instance owner as user is not presented on the Spectrum protect server backup/archive table(s) anymore and we would need ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

TSM client & server support for CENTOS

Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Integrate Spectrum Protect authentication with existing accounts in LDAP servers not AD (like Tivoli Directory Server)

Today, with Spectrum Protect, if we are using LDAP servers like Tivoli Directory Server, SP will create 2 OU's: Administrators and Nodes and also create CN's of each Administrator ID under it. It will only authenticate users that are listed in the...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

TS7770 - Copy of TCT objects written by DS8910 on a TS7770 bucket to physical tape

BrB - Banco de Brasilia, is requesting our support to have objects stored on TS77700 through DS8910 TCT function been moved physical tape.
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

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