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IBM Spectrum virtulize should generate alert before rebuilding of a failed disk

One of our customer have large infrastructure of IBM Storage deployed ,where IBM FS 840 /FS 900 / SVC / IBM V7000 / IBM FS 9150 / IBM FS 9200 installed across India. Although we have call home configured and working for all devices , fault like di...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale maintenance integration with RHEL "yum"

when patching is performed on RHEL (with yum update), binaries that match the kernel must be available concurrently from an IBM public REPO site.1) Patching of RHEL cannot cause a mismatch of the binaries between RHEL and Scale, 2) compilers canno...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Add Storage Class Attribute to Data Pushed to S3

When pushing data to S3 via the Cloudgateway service it would be helpful to be able to specify the storage class. If you don't specify the storage class the data will be stored in S3 Standard. You can create a Lifecycle policy to push the data to ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Improvement to the upgrading process of MGMT server

The upgrade process is apparently not perfect. I was "kicked" out from the upgrade progress page, before process completed and that can cause confusion? The reason i was kicked out, was that the update components/package was updated ? A suggestion...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Creation of the O365 account automatically from SPP

When configuring backup of O365 the account and all required permissions shall be automatically applied from SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect should not backup vSPhere vCLS VMs

The vCLS VMs should be fully ignored by Spectrum Protect for vSphere. IBM support could not help with the problem, but recommended me to submit an RFE for this.See:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GU...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

AFM-COS configuration option for proxy servers

At the moment you cannot configure AFM-COS to use an explizit http(s) proxy server to connect to an external S3 storage.Please also add proxy support to AFM-COS as it is already available for the TCT or call home features.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

node canister replacement fix procedure

The Run fix to replace the canister is missing a step.It doesn't run the "satask chbootdrive -replacecanister" under the covers or mention that the command needs to be run on the replacement node. The instructions are in the Knowledge Center but w...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

When adding SMTP information provide a Test button which will send a test email

When adding SMTP information provide a Test button which will send a test email.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Update VM success/failed summary for a job dynamically

When multiple VMs are being backed up there is no indication of how many VMs have been saved or have failed until the job is complete. The audit log for the job shows that some VMs have completed successfully and some have failed. Can the successf...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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