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    Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

    Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    ISP DP for SQL Powershell in AlwaysON Environment / restore Script

    This Script (Command Line Interface) allows us to do faster restore compare to the Graphical User Interface. MMC GUI has long wait time when restore inactive backup's as described in the case (TS004928519). In a case of ransomware we can't accept ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

    Differentiate FDMI-discovered hosts from storage-connected hosts in FlashSystem Host Management

    Starting with FlashSystem 9.1.2, hosts discovered through FDMI information available in the SAN fabric are displayed within Host Management, even when they do not have effective connectivity to the storage system. While this behavior is expected a...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Make Pulse Log more easily avaiable

    Currently the "Pulse Log" - the log of messages associated with a protection or recovery job - is only available via the GUI and apparently cannot be directly downloaded without copying the contents using cut and paste. Adding a download button wo...
    4 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add DarkMode to the GUI

    I suffer with eye strain and light sensitivity and it seems like supporting a dark mode is pretty straight forward.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

    Configuration: Replica source Storage is container pool only Copy pool exist on tape Replica target Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days Copy pool exist on tape Scenario When the source detects a bad file/object with a...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Disable Host Degraded for Direct-Attached Hosts

    This client has multiple distribution centers with small FS5x00s that are directly attached to a few ESX servers. The site is too small to justify SAN switches, and direct-attach is supported with NPIV enabled on 8.6+ code. In our configuration, e...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Is a defect

    Add support for Rapid7 SIEM

    Storage Defender SIEM integration obviously provides many benefits.Rapid7's InsightIDR SIEM is used for our Production SIEM. Please add support for Defender to integrate with InsightIDR SIEM, or at least the capability to receive and log events se...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect - Copy Retention Sets to Azure Archive Layer

    Customer is looking to use the Copy Retention Sets to Cloud as introduced in 8.1.13. They have an existing storage agreement with Azure and so will be using this. Noted that the release includes support for Archive Storage in both AWS and IBM Clou...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Support online trim / discard of NSD freed/released blocks to optimise NVME backend performances

    We are observing important degradation of GPFS read/write performances that appears to be related to the lack of online trim/discard actions for freed/released blocks on the NSDs. Performances go back to normal once mmreclaimspace is executed and ...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

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