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ganesha_stats improvements

It's difficult to troubleshoot client related issues from the CES cluster. Need a command that output a list of the top clients by amount of operations on the shares. It's necessary in case of situations when clients create load that impedes the r...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms.

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms. ANE4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC=rc mode=full_or_incr, target node name='target_node_name', data ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Please add ACME Client for TSSC

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On TSSC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Under review

Add ACME client for DS8K HMC and DS8K Storage Manager

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the DS8K this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

RHEL 9.X And GPFSGUI Daemon Fail bug?

line 67, checkPortIsAlreadyUsed in "/usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/bin-sudo/check4iptables" This function can act unintentionally when searching for 443 ports. "checkPortIsAlreadyUsed" can act unintentionally when searching for 443 ports on the 72nd line of "/...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

Node Replication Status

When a node fails to replicate, it is nearly impossible to determine why it failed. You have to open a PMR and gather logs and usually have to bring in level II support. This is a big waste of both my and IBM supports' time.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

RAS improvements - "mmlsnvmestatus" also check "lbaf", "ms" and "rp"

It is desired to have "mmlsnvmestatus" also check "lbaf", "ms" and "rp" (Spectrum Scale ECE, RTC Issue 267159)
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP SSL Certificate upload needs significant improvement

The process to upload an SSL certificate for Spectrum Protect Plus is unclear and misleading. The "manage your certificates" upload screen in the admin console states that the supported certificate format are cer and crt. These are also listed as ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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