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    CDM: Allow parallel mounts/restores to proxy/remote host (Windows)

    CDM should allow and handle right mounting multiple snapshots of same type/application to another host (mount proxy/remote host) at the same time (Windows). Intention is to offload multiple MSSQL Server snapshots in parallel. It seems that OS/SCSI...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Role Based Encryption

    Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    List all available recipes in UI

    Customer requested to be able to list all available recipes in Fusion UI and make assignments to applications in UI instead of doing from OCP Level.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0

    Enhance the deactivate data command with optional filespace parameter

    At this moment, the deactivate data command allows one to deactivate data on the node level only. If the filespace parameter is added to the command, one could use this command to deactivate all data for one (or more) filespaces only. Deactivatein...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Allow acknowledging of host problems on Spectrum Scale GUI

    System: Spectrum Scale GUIActor: Admins monitoring the system The GUI is our primary way of monitoring the health and performance of the system. When a worker node goes down, which is common in a large HPC system, the health of the filesystems sho...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    No comma's in session and process numbers

    For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Applications with VMs instead of hosts.

    Most customers use same VMware ESX hosts for multiple VM's and grouping by host (applications) doesn't help to analyze/monitor specific VM's.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Functionality already exists

    CES IP - group failover, within the locality, when using a stretched cluster

    Client in a active-active Spectrum Scale stretched cluster using protocol nodes. They have 6 protocol nodes in total. Nowadays, in case of 1 node failure, the CES IP can be failover to any nodes, either in the same site or to the remote site. This...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Improvement to Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) for shared files.

    Request for an improved DLM mechanism when leveraging a scale out protocole node approach to better handle Locking broadcasting overhead for "shared to all" files and folder.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Support for VMware vCloud Director

    When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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