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Allow specific GDP fusion backup storage classwith Qos to avoid filling production filesystem

When doing fusion GDP backups to S3, fusion is doing a snapshot and then after a clone using mmxcp. This clone is then transferred to S3. When doing it on production systems, this clone is wasting space on production filesystem (i.e flash) as we n...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Client Supend/Maintenance Mode

Add the possibility to put a GPFS client node in a suspend mode or maintenance mode.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Vmmaxvirtualdisks bigger than 8 TB

We have customers with disk bigger than 8 TB.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Archive feature for S3 compatible devices

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus supports Amazon S3 Glacier to archive backup data.But for S3 compatible devices it only supports standard object storage buckets not archive.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/does-ibm-spectrum-protect-plus-support-s3-comp...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow Spectrum Scale Management API to handle POSIX ACLs

The Spectrum Scale Management API currently can not manage POSIX ACLs, only NFSv4 ACLs. We'd like to be able to manage both kinds of ACLs in our system.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SPP - Support for Dataguard

We would like to use SPP to backup our Oracle Databases. Most of the areas at the city will be moving to Dataguard later this year. If this is not supported then we cannot use SPP for this.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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 "...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

VMotion DRS Support for Scale RDM NSD + Quorum Nodes

This IDEA is to support vMotion for NSD RDM nodes. VMware clients - vMotion DRS is enabled by default, used by all clients. To use Scale RDM with ESXi - vMotion is either enabled (automatic) or disabled (manual). To confirm disabled simply means ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add VMware Tape support to ISP Server

Today ISP is supported as an ESX Guest but with a carve out for tape.https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546#VMware%20ESX%20Guest Historically this was due to the ESX 5.x limitation that explicitly did not support tape. VMware h...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Using an external Key Management System for ISP Client encrytion

At the moment there is no possibility to connect an external key management system for the ISP client encryption. The key is either generated automatically by the ISP server or has to be entered manually. We need a posibility to connect the ISP Cl...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration