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Multi level tiering on V7000

More than two level tiering. I.e the ability to combine storage pool of SSD, SAS and NL-SAS and have data migrate between the the way easytier works with data starting in the middle tier and migrating to NL-SAS if it isn't used and upwards to SSD ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

expel the right node although the node is high priority

one ethernet port in one of quorum nodes flapping leading the cluster manger to expel lots of other health nodes in several hours, till the gpfs can not provides service. IBM should add reasonable expel rules to expel the problem node As Alibaba k...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Exclude Single Disks during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of a virtual machine. This enhancement will result in tremendous data reduction.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Delivered

In a Stretched Cluster, add ability to prioritize a site in case of a tiebreak/lost comm. between sites

Currently if we get a tiebreak situation where communication is lost between the sites in a stretched cluster, the nodes that can reserve the quorum disks first will continue to operate and the other half of the cluster will stop.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Support for Hyper-V guests on SMB MS Scale-Out File Cluster

Support is required for TSM4VE Hyper-V when Hyper-V guests are placed on a Windows Scale-Out File Server Cluster (SMB).
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

SVC volume mirror combined with Safe Guarded Copy SGC

We want to have Spectrum Virtualize volume mirror function combined with Safe guarded copy on the same source volume. ADCB is one of our most strategic clients for us in the banking industry in the region. ADCB is using SVC technology for the last...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Delivered

SVC NPIV does not report information to event log

Currently in 7.8.1 it does not appear the NPIV reports to the event log when it moves virtual ports from one node to the alternate or spare. This prevents an additional layer of troubleshooting if the ports trigger a move.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Retrieving GPFS migration attributes

Retrieving GPFS migration attributes
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Expansion of volumes with a FlashCopy mapping

Currently you have to stop and delete the FlashCopy mapping, if like to expand the volume capacity! Today we run a cirtial process to replace a volume in the LVM / ZFS-Pool to expand capacity. After the process is finished, Easy-Tier must learn an...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

misleading flashcopy status of change-volume in hyperswap cluster

In support we receive questions/concerns of customers on a regular base asking/complaining about the "stopped" status of change-volumes. This status is WAD after loss of synchronization btween the sites and resync of the hyperswap volumes. On the ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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