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IBM Storage Archive

improve the "eeadm file state" performance

The customer uses' eeadm file state -q FILENAME' to check the file status to ensure that the file has been migrated to tape. Currently, the time required for this command cannot meet the business's needs, which will result in longer waiting times ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

Change status of a need_replace tape

The eeadm tape replace command is a command that take long time because when this command is in the reclaim phase, is only allowed to use two tape drive although a regular "eeadm tape reclaim" command is allowed to use more tape drive. Sometime, a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

Add metadata entry to a file to be able to know when it was last recalled

This would make ik possible to leave a file premigrated for a defined time period.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

SAEE - Ability to change behavior of tape drive selection mechanism for transparent recalls to use also redundant copy and distribute workload to all copies

Customer can use all available HW resources - all tape drives in all tape libraries for transparent recalls and increase throughput of recalls. It could be fine If I can set copies which will be available for transparent recalls. Customer faces pr...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

Allow to the replace command to reclaim tapes in parallel

Hi, From time to time we need to run the "eeadm tape replace" command to replace from the tape library, some tapes that the Storage Archive detect some read or write actions and decide that this tape is not healthy and it has to be removed and rep...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

Please continue supporting the TS2900 in IBM Storage Archive v2.4.8 and later.

Supported tape libraries - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-le/2.4.8?topic=planning-supported-tape-libraries IBM Storage Archive LE supports the following IBM® tape libraries: IBM Diamondback Tape Library (IBM LTO 9 an...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

SOBAR like recovery for Spectrum Archive

Large Spectrum Archive installation cannot afford backing up files twice so file replication on different tapes is being used.Spectrum Scale Metadata becomes critical as any corruption due to software or harware error may produce a long outage to ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

REST consistency

The rest api is currently not consistent with the eeadm cli. This makes it difficult to automate things that rely on information the cli can output but the rest api doesn't. A few examples: 1. tasks https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-ee/1...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Not under consideration

Client is using single-node IBM Spectrum Archive EE(LTFSEE)/IBM Spectrum Scale(GPFS) cluster on RHEL 7.9 x86_64. The current version of LTFSEE is at 1.3.2.4. Client wants to relocate the *exsisting* server to other location/other network so that IP and hostname of the server needs to be changed. Local support team has asked the procedure to adapt LTFSEE for the changed IP and hostname to GDL LTFS development by LTFS RTC item #86989. Development has answered that there is no procedure to do it as of now. The server relocation is sometimes required with the relocation of customer’s server room or various reasons. Customer strongly needs the verified procedure and/or utility on LTFSEE to adapt IP/hostname change of the server asap. Note: GPFS has such procedure. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.8?topic=topics-changing-ip-addresses-host-names-cluster-nodes

The verified procedure and/or utility on LTFSEE to adapt IP/hostname change of the server asap.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

An option to disable unmount mount for bulk selective recalls using multiple file lists from the same tape.

If you do bulk selective recalls, with multiple file lists coming from the same tape, storage archive unmounts the tape after finishing the list. After starting the new list, the same tape is mounted again. This causes massive delays mounting and ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

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