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    Customer should be able to check the installed VTD_EXEC's via REST-API

    Provide a way to query the installed VTD_EXECs via REST-API GET request. Might just be added to the /GET/clusters/id request.
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    SVC customizable volume presets

    Would be great to have customizable or additional Volume presets in the SVC (and Storwize V7000) GUI:1) "customizable" means the SVC administrator could change /create new presets (according to his needs)2) or we would provide more presets (eg cre...
    over 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    Auto expansion of inode to trigger once usage reaches around 95%

    Today the Scale alerts and auto expansion are triggered when inode usage is very close to 100% and typically that means when the filesystem in use is very active and busy and is not optimal for performance. Would like to see the auto expansion of ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Increased number of concurrent SSH connections and allow us to manage open ssh connections

    Allow an increased number of available ssh sessions into an SVC and allow us to terminate or timeout hung or idle connections.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    SP Generate Dedupstats by filespace for datacenter nodes

    Scheduled dedupstats only run one process per node. This is fine for many node types, but in datacenters with 1000 nodes, it can result in a single process running for a week or two, while all of the other processes have completed.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Functionality already exists

    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...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Functionality already exists

    Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD"

    Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD".We understand we can intentionally avoid this by recreating the certificate manually,but it will cause the operational load to occur.Our customer want us to make ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Functionality already exists

    svc remote copy initialization enhancment (no zero block replication)

    On setting up a new remote copy relationship the volumes have to be synchronized initially. On large volumes (1TB and above) that are replicated over a long distance this can multiple days even if the source volume is thin provisioned and hardly u...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Policy Based Replication - Need a way to monitor how far out of sync destination volumes are from the source volumes for different Volume Groups

    When adding IBM flashsystems to a monitoring tool (we have Zabbix), it can see the Volume Groups made on the flashsystems, but it is not able to get any information that shows how far out of sync the destination volumes are from the source volumes...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Addition of reclaimable space on lsvdiskanalysis and/or GUI volume properties

    With the avenue of reclaim_se utility to automatically reclaim capacity of thin vdisks part of standard pools, clients are starting to ask support at times regarding the reclaimable capacity on their volumes. The command lsvdiskanalysis, from clie...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

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