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Spectrum Discover using Spectrum Protect

Hello, I request the 3 modifications below: 1) Modification of the metadata MgmtClass in Discover. We should not have 'DEFAULT' as a value for this metadata, but its real value.2) creation of a new metadata in Discover. This metadata called XXXXX ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

Coordinated / uncoordinated 3-Site remote copy

SVC 3-Site mirroring solution with Metro and Global Mirror (independent of Vdisk mirroring) - meaning a MM target can be a GM Source
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SPP CA certificate update using CLI

Providence Healthcare is requesting the the CA Certificate can be updated via the CLI on the system.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SVC - Throttle control at host level

I have a customer asking for the ability to throttle IO rate and/or MB rate at the host level vs the current method today of the Volume level.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Intel Omnipath support in Spectrum Scale

I'm just wondering if native Omnipath verbs support is on the roadmap for Spectrum Scale (GPFS).
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Safeguard-immutable copies should remain until their retention expires

Currently, if there isn't enough space for a safeguarded copy, old copies are removed from the DS8 to allow for the new copy to take place. A safeguarded copy should never expire before it's retention period. Safeguarded copies should stop, and al...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Add an ILM policy attribute to indicate if file data is stored in the metadata inode

The ILM is a fantastic powerful tool where it is possible to search or query for items in the file system such as empty directories, attached ACLs, extended attributes etc but there is no easy definitive way of querying if a data file resides in t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Vdisk_protection_enabled: Expand feature

The feature provided against user community rarely does unmap the wrong volume through enabling of "vdisk_protection_enabled=yes" parameter. We wish development teams can take this parameter and expand further to allow partial unmap of resources f...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Modular Spectrum Virtualize code upgrades

Any Spectrum Virtualize upgrade, even from say a.b.c to a.b.d is a full load of the entire Spectrum Virtualize code on each node, which is a potentially disruptive event
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Improve memory-mapped file performance

Memory-mapped files (mmaps) provide a flexible way to handle larger-than memory data. However, reading and writing speed of mmaps on a GPFS file system is worse than using single disk or network-mounted filesystems. It would be great if this could...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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