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Efficient Deletion of Fileset backup data based on mmBackup per Fileset

We are running multi-petabyte Scale file systems in our HPC environment. User data is organized per project using independent filesets. The backup of user data is performed using mmBackup per fileset. For new projects, a new fileset is created. Wh...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

FlashSystem Freeze time delay metric

When I do my nightly data refresh from my Corporate FlashSystem to my remote Disaster Recovery FlashSystem, the 'Freeze time' in the "Copy Services" - "Remote Copy" - "Consistency Group" - 'Freeze time' falls behind from being current. I would lik...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Not under consideration

Expand the number of supported Protocol Clusters that can be configured on a IBM Spectrum Scale Storage Cluster

Expand support for the current limitation of one storage cluster and up to five protocol clusters to one storage cluster and up to ten protocol clusters.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add TS1160 support to V7 Storage Agent

Platin/PlatiniumCustomer VW has more than 200 physical HP/UX and SUN Solaris server, running several applications, including Oracle, some of them larger than 100 TB. All these server are using TSM TDP with LAN free backup. VW purchased the TS4500 ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Not under consideration

Provide an IBM TS7700 interal fucntion to allow removing the secondary copies from old/inactive Copy Export Pool via internal DB2 cleanup.

Our production TS7770 cluster was performing the daily copy export process prior the new TS7780 copy export cluster was installed. Now the production TS7770 needs to get rid of the copy export pool with 200 pvols in order to be able to re-use thos...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way with BVIR "Physical Volume Status Information" to display whether a PVOL has the RELABEL flag set or not

We quite often use the LI REQ, LVOL, RELABEL command since we are moving the COPY EXPORT VOLSER Range from Cluster 4 to our new Cluster 3. However, due to timing issues sometimes the affected PVOLs are going into readonly (internal/expternal label...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Add additional fields to BVIR "Volume Status Information" report

Within the TS7700 when customer are moving to a new tape drive generation or to a new media generation they are often introducing a new pool and reclaim the existing data from the existing pool to the new pool. This is a common and IBM recommended...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Client needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.

Customer's Capacity plan Team needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Activity report and Security Posture Report grouped by Business

Would be good to have customizable reports on Defender to have the ability to build custom reports . The prime use case I see (customer asked for) is to be able to provide a report for a given business application which woud be composed of VMs and...
over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration