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Replicate NDMP TOC

NDMP TOC still has to be backed up into a file class, and cannot be replicated. This is unacceptable for the "push everything in the cloud" mentality.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Server database online REORG cancelling running process & sessions

During online IBM Spectrum Protect Server database REORG current running process/sessions are cancelling. I don't have free window to run reorg alone. Below are the tables creating problem 11/10/2017 11:58:26 AM ANR1880W Server transaction was can...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SVC stretch cluster volume select preffered node

When creating a new SVC stretch cluster volume, the site location (or the preferred node ID) cannot be selected. Also, it cannot be set until after the format of the volume is done. But can be changed at a later time using movevdisk.We need a func...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

VM move from one VC to another schould be recognized by SPP

In large and grown VMware environments it can happen that VMs have to be moved from one virtual center to the next in the same cluster. With Virtual Centers that have existed for many years, VMware Support may recommend installing a new VC and mov...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Protect Stgpool target to cloud container

We need protect stgpool to work with cloud containers as a target pool.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

mmchconfig maxblocksize is not dynamically changeable

PMR TS001057386.Spectrum Scale in Version 5 has a new maxblocksize default. But to Change these for old Clusters all Daemon must be down to change these parameter. The request here mmchconfig maxblocksize should be dynamicaly changeable without co...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SVC stretched cluster learning Easy Tier heatmap on secondf copy of Vdisk mirror

Easy Tier considers each pool separately, without knowledge about mirrored VDisks. In a stretched cluster with full site awareness and host failover cluster as application, the pool in the production site (where the host failover cluster lives mos...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale CES SMB-NFS Separation

The today CES Protocoll implementation of the accestype file NFS and SMB are implementetd together. This seems to be a Problem if we want to separatly maintain the component. If we stop smb we see already issues in nfs. This is for us not really a...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

When using Protocol nodes, the export IPs should be the only one to allow mounting shares

With the use of Protocol Nodes, the CES requires IPs for export shares. However, even having the IP specific for share, the internal IPs (NODE IPs), which are used for administration only, also allow the NFS Mounts. The request is to isolate the n...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Increase independent inode filesets from 1000 to 32k

We have a customer that requires their projects separated via independent inode filesets. They are against the 1000 fileset limit and need it to be increased to a more realistic number.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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