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Monitor Spectrum Archive components in mmhealth

Spectrum Archive is missing from mmhealty. Please add monitoring of services and sub-component status similar to tiering to cloud. Lots of library, drive, cartridge and task statuses are easily available from the eeadm command.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE restore only one disk, default space issue

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Restore Issue. The product design only permits these options when you want to restore only one individual unit like c: 1. If the target guest does not exist yet, space will be assigned on the datastore for...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate manual recompiles of gpfs.gplbin due to kernel changes

It should not be necessary for customers to manually recompile gpfs.gplbin every time the kernel is updated. Two possible approaches seem to be: * kmod, which would remove the need to recompile the module as long as the kABI remains stable. kABI-t...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Planned for future release

Add support for TSM Server instances to be managed by systemd on Linux.

We require support for TSM Server instances to be properly managed by systemd on Linux. This would require the creation and distribution of a proper service unit file.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to generate a report of all the Hydra system inventory.

Ability to generate a report of all the system inventory. -Frame serial number, hydra serial number, tssc serial number, cache controller and enclosures per frame with serial numbers, etc.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Update of SPP image in Azure Market Place to a more recent version

The customer is deploying SPP on prem and in Azure Cloud. While they are at 10.1.15 in their on-prem setup, the image in Azure market place is still at 10.1.11, which is outdated. Request to update the Azure Marketplace image to at least 10.1.14
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

Enable automatic upload of log files / snaps when a Call Home is triggered and case created

Like Spectrum Scale has this option Event-based uploads: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.0?topic=upload-event-based-uploads , can a similar option be created in Spectrum Virtualize so when a Call Home is triggered and a case is open...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Add ability to specify cluster as target for TSM4VE restores

Make it possible to specify ESXi cluster and storage cluster names when restoring VM in TSM4VE
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

DeferredDeletion per INODE filespace

When an user deletes his files in a GPFS file system the inodes are freed directly, but for the data blocks an DeferredDeletion process is triggered which will delete the related data blocks in a background process. The quota usage of this user/gr...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Container Mode support for embedded accessers

with the new AWS S3 Object Lock functionality we're opening tons of new use-cases to COS. this is great! unfortunately S3 Object Lock is only supported on container modes, not vault modes. smaller COS systems with embedded accesser configs are lim...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

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