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    Need a support for data migration using AFM between two Spectrum Scale clusters with migrated data to tape by ISP HSM.

    Currently data on a source Spectrum Scale clucster(or ESS) can be migrated to a target cluster using AFM prefetch function.In case that a cluster uses HSM function which migrates data on GPFS to tape storage using ISP for Space Management, AFM pro...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

    Decomission of VM

    We are waiting for documemtation on how Decomission of VMs work in SPP, Case number TS0008726 Typically we do see that customer want to do one of 3 things (in order of most common) when a VM is decomissioned:Store VM for a certain time, for exampl...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SVC Easy Tier - Heat Map Transfer Request

    Given that SVC is used for DR, and with 7.3.x Easy Tier allows 3 tiers, just like in the DS8K series, it is critical for customers to be able to have the Heat Map Transfer for the SVC to ensure efficient transition to a DR center during a disaster...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    GUI : capacity information consistency

    Different information/ mismatch between ‘used capacity’ and ‘total capacity’. Monitoring -> Files -> Filesets -> view details -> used capacity Due to the fact, that two file copies are made on the filesystem on ESS storage cluster , th...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

    The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhancement for Anomaly Detection

    I like the idea of Anomaly Detection in Spectrum Protect for the Server, starting in 8.1.5, to detect a possible crypto trojan. But in the our Use Cases it will become clear, that this is not much helpfull.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Need online password validation option for Spectrum Protect database backup

    The Spectrum Protect database backups need password to be specified to include master encryption key along with database backup. However, there is no option to validate the password when spectrum protection instance is up and running. The only way...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    SnapDiff API - NetAPP un-deprecated snapdiff ZAPIs in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases

    Let me also give you some background information on SnapDiff APIs. Originally SnapDiff v1/v2 ZAPIs were deprecated in ONTAP 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 but were un-deprecated in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases. As long as you are on the most recent ...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    TS4500 improve Remote Authentication (LDAP, RACF) support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

    Multi-factor authentication is a major component of security policies in many companies. TS4500 supports remote authentication with MFA when used with Duo (authentication proxy). However, this client has already invested in an MFA infrastructure t...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Request to add "all" option to put filesystem in maintenance mode

    In order to shutdown/startup gpfs gracefully, it is recommended to put filesystem in maintenance mode using "mmchfs --maintenance-mode" cmd before shutdown. However, this command allow only one filesystem at a time. So if the customer has many fil...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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