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Update CopyOperator role in IBM Spectrum Virtualize

IBM SVC v8.2.1.9IBM CSM v6.2.8 >Trying to execute CSM FlashCopy sessions to SVC controllers and CSMSERVICE account needs 'Administrator' role access as the 'CopyOperator' privelidges are insufficent. > Unfortunately the 'CopyOperator' group ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

SOBAR like recovery for Spectrum Archive

Large Spectrum Archive installation cannot afford backing up files twice so file replication on different tapes is being used.Spectrum Scale Metadata becomes critical as any corruption due to software or harware error may produce a long outage to ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

CDM - request to not wait for the Flashcopy to complete copying before ending the job in the storage controller

- During restore the FC "volume snap" is currently mounted successfully via CDM- but no access is possible for an application e.g. VMware. - CDM waits for R/W operations until the complete FC is restored. Thus no immediate restore + use with CDM i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Fast replication of tape

During tape replication over a longer distance, RPO time can be quite long (>1 h). In a disaster recovery scenario, this is not acceptable. Potentially we could loose critical data.
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 17 Not under consideration

IBM Storage Ceph alerting, reporting, and probe frequency

Alex manages the Kyndryl team that supports FedEx Ground, a very significant IBM i and FlashSystem and DSI client. We are implementing Ceph as Long Term archive backend for the DSI Virtual Tape Library and the Kyndryl team needs to be able to moni...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Flashsystem : Behavior when the management IP port cable is disconnected

If the cable of the node with the management IP on the side with the management IP is disconnected, there will be no SNMP signal or syslog signal forever.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Add support for SNI in TLS handshake when using TLS/SSL

When using SSL/TLS from clients, the handshake towards the server should include SNI in order to better support centralized certificate management when using e.g. SSL offloading hosts RFC 6066 specifies:It is RECOMMENDED that clients include an ex...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Improve TS7700 Scratch Allocation Assistance functionality

We have 2 cluster Production Grid, 1 local and 1 remote. We preference the local cluster, because Ficon performance to remote forces us to. We have employed SAA to preference the local cluster.When the local cluster fails or is put into service pr...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI Dashboard Nodes by Latency

Add the ability to "Cherry Pick" and display in the Scale GUI the top nodes by latency. This could be on the statistics widget or a new widget. Add the granularity of client nodes, NSD nodes, nodes by nodeclass XYZ, or custom picked nodes. Additio...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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