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RFE 51: Automated vdisk mirroring functionality

One of the big advantages SVC offers is the ability to non-disruptively move vdisksbetween backend storage arrays - SVC pools. However this is currently a manually intensive process and requires the administrator to start and stop vdiskmirrors. Th...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Web GUI refresh

Customer is clicking on a drive to monitor drive status. Due to automatic web GUI refresh, previously marked drive is moving up or down in drive list (depending on previously sort selection). But this is annoying from customer point of view: Previ...
about 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Is a defect

Volume format should be faster or invisible to the user

Feedback from a user group meeting: On the CLI, the mkvolume command to create a new volume will always create an empty volume. No exceptions. There is no option to do otherwise so I know my volumes will always be created zeroed, which is great fo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Migration process hang waiting volumes in use

Storagepools with file type devclass are used on a large scale in this client. the problem occurs when the migration process starts and some session has a mounted .bfs file (backup or restore). The migration process remains stuck until the session...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Management API does not distinguish between NFSv4 and POSIX ACLs

When using the GET ACL request https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r03.doc/bl1adm_apiv2getfilesystemacl.htm It _always_ reports the ACL is of the NFSv4 type, even if the ACL is POSIX This is false i...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support CEPH as S3 target on "cloud storage tier"

IBM is pursuing CEPH as one of the S3 solutions ( additional to IBM COS) We are wondering if we could certify CEPH S3 interface as TS7700 offload target for TS7770C so we have the chance to use IBM COS or CEPH when deploying IBM S3 solutions onprem
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Add support for wide links in protocol nodes/mmsmb

wide links is a parameter supported by SMB exports configuration. But currently it is not possible to specify it when adding a new smb share with the "mmsmb export add" command.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Prevent Web B/A client file level restore port conflict with WAS ports

Customer identified during the Spectrum Protect web client implementation that its ports (9081) conflicts directly with WAS (Websphere Application Server) ports that's is being in use by their banking online production applications. Thus this beha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Backup vCLS VMs

Exclude vCLS VMs from VM backups using TDP for VMware. Is not possible exclude VMs from backup using TAG, when VM is backed up using Schedule-Tag option.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Lucene DB maintenance option

I require an option within Spectrum Protect Plus that that will given me the ability to either reset the Lucene db (like drop the entire DB) or remove file indexing entries older than x days) This would give me the flexibilty to better control wha...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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