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dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

RegionalDR and S3 Acceleration at the same time

Clients who are building data lakehouse , are also building DR capabilities. Fusion HCI, Watsonx and CEPH are bringing turnkey experience Fusion HCI 2.7.1 wil bring Regional DR capabilities.Fusion HCI brings alot of benefits to Watsonx.data, inclu...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Storage Scale - A GPFS node with multiple nic drivers (ip addresses) should not be able to rejoin the cluster when the daemon interface is down

Our storage nodes have multiple nic drivers and IP addresses (RoCE network). When the nic for daemon IP is down (dev bond0), it will still keep trying to rejoin the cluster again and again, because its another nic (dev bond1) is still working. But...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customers to input a list of client nodes

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 queries the Storage Protect server for all its Storage Protect client nodes, does some filtering to select only supported platforms, and then will asso...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of Volume group with replication policy assigned

For our larger customers where we are (currently) replicating with GM/GMCV consistency group names are chosen alongside with the customer as they would like to easily identify by CG name to which application the volumes in the consistency group be...
20 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

S3 target on DS8

Consolidation of infrastructure (storage) on to a single platform
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Add back the small RPO graph on the Global Mirror Info tab

It seems the small RPO chart which used to be on the Global Mirror Info tab was removed in 6.3.8 although doesn't appear to have been publicized in the release notes. This was a very convenient immediate place to check recent RPO. Having to use th...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Get Red Hat to work with Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

Enhancements to Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should be made, and certification steps undertaken with Red Hat such that it is listed - preferably as the top product - on Red Hat's web site for RHOS and RH Virtualisation vendors. Currently Re...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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