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    Minimize Upgrade time for Flash System canisters

    Today upgrade of Flash System controller take around 20 minutes per canister.This means less performance , less ports that are in use , and put the customer in risk , in case the second canister have problem during the upgrade of the first canister.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Add a timeout to the MIGRATE STGPOOL command

    Every day, we encounter migration processes that are waiting for access to an input file that is busy. Examples of waiting processes (stgpool FER.FILE is devclass=FILE): 63 Migration Volume /sppool/fer3/003CFCB3.BFS (storage pool FER.FILE), Moved ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    SpVirt cluster-wide throttle definitions

    Host throttling operates at the node level and therefore applies only to the volumes in that IO group. Need to be able to define a cluster-wide throttle.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    VASA 3.0\DRP with child pools (VVol support)

    IBM is lacking support for VASA 3.0 with VVol support with data reduction pools.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Automatic Performance reports of Fiber channel IO

    it would be great to have a way of automating performance reports of a ds8k through storage insights. for example during an LCP Push/ pull be able to have an automated report which gets created and can be sent to an email address. we pull these ma...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Support for Azure Blob Immutable Storage

    Cyber Resiliency of backup data using immutable storage needs to be possible using Azure Blob Immutable Storage, both in Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, as both products are capable of storing data in Azure Blob storage.ICOS immutable ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backup

    SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backupWe need an option to change expiration date for already taken backup to desired value. For example to change it to expire in 1 year instead of 1 month with which it was taken.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Show the sum of used capacity when selecting multiple volumes via GUI

    When selecting multiple volumes via GUI, show the sum of Used Capacity for the selected volumes, along with the Capacity that is already displayed today.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    SIDhistory support needed for AD domain migration

    Our customer is going to merge 2 hospitals into one new Active Directory domain and needs to have support for SIDhistory to keep access to files from both old domains. This is needed in SAMBA in CES. Support for SIDhistory is already available in ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Request for Possible improvement in SP4VE GUI

    In the GUI via WEB of SP4VE, when you access to perform a restore, the different datastorages appear where each machine that we have in backup to be able to do restores is located inside. The problem is that there is no search engine to search for...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Functionality already exists

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