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Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud (SV4PC) - AWS GP3 support

client (BP) have moved AWS GP2 to GP3 since GP3 was introduced DEC 2020. GP3 are 20% lower costs per GB month than GP2 and provide 3000 IOPS v's 100 at GP2. This makes GP3 now the default choice for our AWS client. Even with SV4PC data reduction ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

No quiesce option for VM backup

Along TSM-VE implementation, I have observed that lots of errors are generated due to virtual machine quiescence errors. Beause TSM has no control on how the operating systems are configured, and if there is any issue with the in guest VSS tools, ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Automatically use the same preferred node of source volumes for snapshot target volumes.

Automatically use the same preferred node for target snapshot volumes of source snapshot volumes.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Support of VVOL Replication and QoS for Spectrum Virtualize

Hi, I would like to ask support related of Spectrum Virtualize integration with VMware.Product: Spectrum VirtualizeCustomer : We're work with a S1 Account, Serpro, who will buy Storage and Virtualization solution for refresh their environment.Cust...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Tx/Rx values at SVC GUI

Could you please develop to be Tx/Rx values visible at SVC GUI? It would be useful at a port investigation issue. There is a problem with swith SFP, FC cable or SFP of an SVC node. With this info we could raise a ticket much more perfectly. Thank ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

gpfs.snap option to add case number and upload to IBM

It would be nice to have an option in gpfs.snap that would take a case number and then upload the snap output once it has been created. Would remove some manual steps... think of how much collective time would be saved with this feature!! -Bryan
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

CSM does not show single failed PPRC path in overview console

CSM console is the main Monitoring tool for all z/OS storage related issues. Recently, we lost one of the PPRC paths but this error was not visible in the overview console. The seesion overview console showed everything as normal (no warning and n...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 Delivered

Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from a client to implement all IBM tooling along with Spectrum Protect (8.1.2) via LDAPS. We have successfully proved the current form of integration with StartTLS but the client in question is a bank and has concerns around ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Support for more that one OCP Cluster

With support for only one OCP cluster, It will be difficult for our customers to do upgrades on the same platform. If you have 10 different OpenShift workloads on a single OCP 4.8. cluster. How do you upgrade to some of those workloads to another ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Delivered

9848-AF8 / 8.3.1.1 limits migration speed ( number of threads )

After upgrading FS9x00 - 9848-AF8 to 8.3.1.1, the number of threads when migrating out of internal mdiskgrp has been limited to 4. That combination can be reached by 4x1, 2x2, 1x4 - the total number of threads cannot exceed 4 This is a limitation ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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