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FlashSystem GUI + FCM + SGC --> NO PHYSICAL CAPACITY INFO

In a FS config + FCM drives, working with CSM ans SGC (SafeGuarded Copies).Each SGC reserve 2% of LOGICALcapacity of source volume. But there is not possible to view PHYSICAL CAPACITY information after FCM compression. Virtualize GUI do not show r...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Enhance Monitoring Capabilities by adding new Performance-Metric

Our Load on Ganesha NFS drives the Services into stale conditions where manual interventions are required and possibly tuning measures needed. Currently there is no way to figure what Limits are hit within Ganesha and logging seems not to help a l...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TSM-VE : better handling of VM template backup

may I suggest to not report a VM template backup as failed as it is done now when the VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS is specified in the datamover option file ? It dosen't make sens to raise Error when excpected behavior has occured. If I specify the opt...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE backup report

We need IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center to be able to generate a SP (TSM) for VE backup report on daily bases. We need this report to cover successful and failed SP (TSM) for VE backup jobs and to be able to automatically e-mail to our manag...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

GPFS command confliction list

Our client uses IBM Spectrum Scale for NAS. Scale has many GPFS commands which have "mm" prefix, and some commands conflict each other.We want to know the conflict list on KnowledgeCenter for their daily operation.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize v8.2.1.9 'lsfabric' command does not support hostclusters

When tracking host fabric connections to a Spectrum Virtualize controller (especially with multiple IO groups) the command 'lsfabric -host <hostname>' can be used.However our VMWare cluster has 9 hosts, configured within a host cluster.The '...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Select which management class for offload backup is used.

When making backup jobs we want to select which management class the spectrum protect for VE datamover must use for offload backups. We need the option to have different retentions requirements for long term storage on the spectrum protect server....
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

More intelligent Caching

With the DS8000 IBM has several patents and very efficient caching algorithms. This interlectural property should be also available in the SVC
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Command to check compressed usage size for each fileset quickly

We are performing IBM Spectrum Scale compression on each fileset on daily basis through gpfs policies. The df command is not showing the accurate usage for each fileset and only du shows the actual usage. But since du usually takes long time to pr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Configure TSM4VE without admin account on Spectrum protect server

Make it possible to configure the TSM4VE interface without the need for an administrative account on the Spectrum protect server. Currently TSM4VE configuration needs an administrative SP account in order to configure the product - if no admin is ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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