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Spectrum Protect: Integration of exfs -filesystem needed, minor changes to xfs, HPE will give assistance

IBM supports XFS as filesystem in IBM spectrum protect Linux-client. We were using this solution on our scientific-storage for several years now (Suse SLES 11 with HA and XFS (CXFS as well at our second company site) as filesystem on our disk-shel...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Automate process to deploy OS+drivers in protocol nodes

Today approach to deploy protocol nodes is to use xcat for protocol node OS+drivers and Toolkit for protocol node rpms. This request is to provide a supported automation to deploy OS+drivers for protocol nodes.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

IBM SVC- request ability in V7.x GUI to create multi-volume (plus symbol) capability like in pre-V7.x GUI.

Pre-V7.x GUI, when creating New Volume there existed an ability to enter a (Volume Name, Size, # of Volumes) and ability to click on (plus symbol) to add new line for entering additional New Volumes. Appears that starting in V7.1.0.x GUI, that whe...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Enable SNMP access

The V7000 support only SNMP Traps. It would be nice to monitor with SNMP MIB, so that a healthy state could also be determined.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Issue an alert for less physical capacity

This idea is related to SCSI-I-1160. "Auto stop of Write operation against oops" may be too difficult, so I'll submit another idea. The customer encountered oops (Out of Physical Space) on FlashSystem 900 AE3 under V7000. The customer request...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - VMware - VM Tag support

We would like to request the VM schedule tagging functionality to VE. Not being able to do it at the VM level is creating a lot of unnecessary workarounds and exceptions. Is this something that is in scope for future releases? Thanks.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

128 mdisk per pool

The SVC has a limit from 128 mdisk per mdiskpool.This limit is clearly too small for performant enfironment. We need at least 512 mdisk or 1024 mdisks per pool. So the memory for caching can be better utilized. A breakdown of the memory does not m...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Ignore small differnces in tape formats when selecting tapes for write

Tape selection criteria were modified in v1.3.3.0 to improve tape utilization: P1: The tape that is currently mounted in the selected drive.P2: Tapes with the least amount of capacity.P3: Barcode order: If there are multiple tapes that have the sa...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

qos throttle support -N remote-node

qos throttle support -N remote-node
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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