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'failureDetectionTime' less than 10

We require to set 'failureDetectionTime' less than 10 in File System replica with DAE/DME or Erasure Coding with ECE. According to case #TS009816891, the minimum value for 'failureDetectionTime' is 10. Could you please allow us to set less than 10...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

ARM support for Spectrum Protect client

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes. The persistent data are backed up by Spectrum...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Future consideration

Allow wildcard patterns for node names in tiering rules

Support the usage of wildcard pattern for node names in storage tiering rules.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Server Cross-replication with Client Acceptors to both on all clients

Site fail-over/fail-back of the "restore" function (read from ISP server(s)) is already provided in the ISP server product. Site fail-over/fail-back of the "backup" function (write to ISP server) is not. If site A goes down, backups must be suspen...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

extend number of independent filesets

For a file system used in a large research facility with a capacity beyond 20 PB, we would like to generate at least 5000 independent filesets for projects being active in processing and generating data. We expect initially a demand for 5000 indep...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

DRP Pool Metrics per vDisk -> Sizes and Savings

The vDisk display in DRP pools must match those of the legacy pools. Especially the size display and the savings have to be transparent. New functions like deduplication and compaction schould get their own metric as well.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O.The new statistics should be reported for the mdisks by node.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SPP re-catalog from vSnap content (consistency audit)

Ability for SPP server to populate/crosscheck its catalog information based on Vsnap content. Just like an audit to ensure that everything that is stored on Vsnap is known in the catalog, plus the ability to register images found on vSnap which wo...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to export backup data from directory container Storage pool and mover node data from a Directory Container stgpool

SYSTEM: Product IBM Spectrum Protect ACTOR: User requires additional option of the export/import node to include backup and archive data stored on directory container object storage pool, both on on and off premise.Function to back up a directory ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration