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    Auto expansion of inode to trigger once usage reaches around 95%

    Today the Scale alerts and auto expansion are triggered when inode usage is very close to 100% and typically that means when the filesystem in use is very active and busy and is not optimal for performance. Would like to see the auto expansion of ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Customize At Risk intervals to reflect real environment

    In order to have the Operations Center reflect correctly the risk status of Spectrum Protect nodes we should be able to inform accuratedly when the backups really run. Some clients, for instance, have nodes that run backups only on weekdays, so th...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    NTP updates needed

    Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
    10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    AFM Azure Blob direct support

    For data exchange, data access from multiple sites and also access of data from within Azure we would like to use Spectrum Scale AFM connected to a Azure blob similar as connected to S3 storage. Currently this will require a S3 / Azure converter l...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

    Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Ability to open a case via Storage Insights for Brocade switches.

    Clients are currently unable to open a case to IBM support via Storage Insights for any added to their instance Brocade switch. A feature allowing this would be nice.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap

    SPP doesn't support re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap in the event of primary vSnap pool corruption/data loss. A full baseline backup is initiated if backups pointed to secondary or to a new built primary vSnap.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Add the ability to remove a TS7770 Feature - FC 5271

    Once a customer has a Grid installation of numerous TS7700s, FC5271 is required on all new additions/changes to the grid going forward. For a customer that is no longer using (or was never using) this feature, there is no way to remove the feature...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    SPP: Implement link feature for jobs

    Currently SPP only offers a job scheduling by time. To leverage the backup (and replication) window at a maximum, it would be great to have a "link feature" for jobs.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    GUI snapshot deletion from oldest to newest

    Due to inode manipulation, it is a best practice and less effort to the GPFS to delete the oldest snapshot first. However, when doing the snapshot deletion manually, in the client using the GUI, it should also order it from oldest to newest.This w...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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