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How to gracefully stop the IP quorum application on host

Customer raised question :" how to gracefully stop the quorum application and shut that RHEL server down." Presently , we don't have stop command - hence we have to be dependent on host shutdown It will be good idea to add this new functionality "...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

mmrestripefs % complete metric is near useless

Current behavior------------------mmrestripefs (and mmdeldisk) displays a % complete metric while it is going. Unforunately, this seems to be tracking the % of the inode of the whole filesystem that it is currently working on. Deficiency of this--...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Introduce new Replication Only SLA

System: Spectrum Protect PlusActor: User needing new feature Spectrum Protect Plus is a Backup and Data reuse product that allows for easy protection of virtual workloads and replication to alternate locations. However, although replication is sup...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Requirements and design to deal with 10 billion of indexed files

Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Protect Customer wants to build a spectrum discover environment which handles up to 12 billion indexed files we are testing Spectrum Discover with 02 Spectrum Protect servers as data sources. Only these two server r...
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

dsmc should be able to backup all files when using mmbackup

TSM when used to backup Spectrum Scale file-systems with mmbackup is unable to backup files with certain characters in filenames (e.g. new line). Given files with new lines can be created using Spectrum Scale with CES from Windows and Mac clients,...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced possiblities for defining password policy in SPP

SPP does only allow to configure a minimum password length within the Global Preferences. Setting further options like: - minimum number of upper case characters- minimum number of lower case characters- minimum number of special characters- minim...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Disable scan of files before archiving when using filelist

We have been archiving with file lists for over 20 years, so we know that the client archived differently and, above all, faster in earlier versions (5-7). If you specified a file list in these old versions, archiving started within a few seconds,...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

SP Operation Center - Enhance View - Storage --> Tape Device

In the OperationsCenter gui in Storage --> Tape Devices the link to 'Libraries' on the top left is pointing to the same location as the upper link: Storage --> Tape Devices https://servername:11090/oc/gui#tapeIt would make more sense to poin...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Dual authentication for TS7700 constructs

Many of my TS7700 customers are starting to tight up security to protect the environment from both internal and external attack. In the TS7700 grid environment, there is a risk that the TS7700 constructs, especially the MGMTCLAS constructs, can be...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Allow acknowledging of host problems on Spectrum Scale GUI

System: Spectrum Scale GUIActor: Admins monitoring the system The GUI is our primary way of monitoring the health and performance of the system. When a worker node goes down, which is common in a large HPC system, the health of the filesystems sho...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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