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No hostimpact during upgrade/maintenance of nodes (no paths offline)

No hostimpact during upgrade/maintenance of nodes (no paths offline) Two nodes in 1 IO group should be both connected to all ports on a sort of internal/external switch or module, so when a node would go offline all paths from host perspective sho...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

better mtu detection in mmnetverify

mmnetverify should try more data sizes than the current data-small/medium/large. F.ex. I just discovered that the ESS installation scripts by defaults sets an MTU of 2048 -- even on ethernet. This is not detected as a problem with the current test...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize does not handle space exhaustion in update directory well

Code Upgrades halts due to no space available to update directory. Nodes do not show a clear message for low space and way to check what is stored in the update directory.. Option to reclaim space used by old firmware codes and log files - SVC fir...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Vifrtualize does not warn you of poor intranode port configuration

Port assignment can allow you to have a single internode connection. This will result in only talking to one fabric. If you lose a node it will keep running but depending on the traffic you can drop the whole cluster. Very busy and can time out an...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

ODX Support for IBM SVC / Storwize Family

ODX Support for IBM SVC / Storwize Family
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

IBM V.3700 & IBM V.7000 upgrade issue

The IBM V.3700 internal SSD disk drive for its own IBM V:7000 software/firmware was filled up and prevented the system to upgrade to a new release. This problem can also occur on IBM V.7000. Commands to rectify was: * cleardumps -prefix /home/admi...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server should be able to display what clients are sending 'pre-deduplicated' data

either in operations center, or with a simple select statement, it should be possible to display if a client is actually sending deduplicated data to the Spectrum protect server.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Automate optimization of calibration of LTO9 tapes...

Cailbration of LTO9 tapes takes for ever. Script-magic is needed to optimize the calibration process. So that all tape drives are used in the library. This will need to change! The agony of calibration tapes grows as the library grows. . .
about 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Delivered

Operation to use 443 https instead of specific port 11090 default

A Danish customer is asking for the option to use the https 443 standard SSL TCPport and use that instead of the need to use a specific port in the URL like 11090.https://Ipaddress:11090/ocIt should be possible to access the OC UI without the need...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Delivered

One device class should be defined for one device(SVC) regardless of backup jobs

Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware with SVC device require each device class for each backup job now.The product should be defined one device class for 1 device regardless of backup jobs.The product also require each target set for each backup j...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

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