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Support https natively on S3 objects in protocol nodes

This RFE is opened in behalf of General Motors. Vendors are required to support secure http i.e https for Object Store as one of the protocols provided in Spectrum Scale protocol nodes. Currently the product does not support https.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Storage Insights doesn't collect performance data often enough

Storage Insights can collect performance data no more frequently than every minute. Some storage devices, such as Spectrum Virtualize, collect data more frequently than that. Since some performance events take place on the scale of seconds, it is ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

SpVirt cluster-wide throttle definitions

Host throttling operates at the node level and therefore applies only to the volumes in that IO group. Need to be able to define a cluster-wide throttle.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

V3700 ThinProvisioning does not work as advertised

V3700 Thin Provisioning does not work as advertised.We consider "IBM Storwize V3700: Ideal for VMware environments" => http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/tsf03029usen/TSF03029USEN.PDFSince Storwize does not currently support the VMware...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spacereservation in compressed pools

In systems with with Flashmodules and compression always on there should be a integrated process to reserve some space for emergency release. As these systems are designed for overprovisioning this is a lack of security.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Analoga to QUERY OCCUPANCY

For Nodes with complex data structure is often not enough to get information at the end of dsmc q ba "Path_to_objects/*" -subdir=yes -ina -querysummary with Total Data etc. More detailed aggregated information with backup/archive data amount and n...

Check pool usage in units of "fileset"

My client company is a customer who uses "fileset" in a wide variety.The customer is using "ess3200" and "ess5000" divided into "system pool" and "data1 pool".The customer has transferred the data from "system pool" in "fileset" to "data1 pool".Ho...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Show the sum of used capacity when selecting multiple volumes via GUI

When selecting multiple volumes via GUI, show the sum of Used Capacity for the selected volumes, along with the Capacity that is already displayed today.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Remove the need for reboot when installing BA and TDP clients on Windows

For the GUI to work some 2012 libraries has to be installed. This requires a reboot. IBM should change the code so that the BA and TDP clients are not dependant of additional software that requires a reboot. A reboot requires downtime and must be ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add Report in Spectrum Protect Plus for daily growth of each vSnap server

One of our Enterprise customer want to know via Report - daily growth of each vSnap server (he has 6 vSnap Servers)
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration