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Spectrum Scale support for routing over infiniband fabrics

The current implementation of Spectrum Scale Infiniband networking, does not allow for or support the allocation of GUID for a bonded interface when working with Mellanox's IP2GID tool which is required for configuring IP's for environment with mu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

VM Restore Types - Change Naming

Change the VM restore naming types – They are confusing mostly because test creates an active clone and clone doesnt! In my opinion Test should be renamed Instant Access (can still create an active clone that you can move into production or cleanu...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Proactive alerting

Proactive alerts setup to alert when CPU, memory, configuration catalog, recovery catalog and file catalog are reaching 75%+ to flag more resources will be required shortly.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - password strength

Spectrum Protect has no capability to enforce strong passwords for "local" IDs. Only the length of the password can be specified. The new TLS certificates do give some better security. But I would like to see SP enforce strong passwords, eg 14 ran...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

DEACTIVATE FILESPACE

Based on the principle of new commands, DEACTIVATE and DECOMMISSION, which act on the nodes,we should be able to go down to the file system level.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 and IBM Security QRadar support

From level R5.1 (8.51.0.63), the name of the sender of the logs visible in the IBM Security QRadar software is for example :- LinuxServer @ 00323_78-H9952_ (example of TS7700 unit with the serial number of the 3957-VEx server) - LinuxServer @ Adre...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control and TS7700 (VTS)

Today, customer is managing around thirty TS7700 units. He does not have the possibility to easily check the configuration on each one to be sure that the configuration corresponds to their need. Also, in case of problem, it's very time consuming ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

3 sites Support

Hi, we are receiving requirements about 3 Site Support. It is very necessary for our Customer. This a mandatory requirement from regulator.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Catalog file discovery results failed in VM Backup

SPP can run catalog file metadata on backup VM for different vLans networks.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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