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Enhancement to Tape volser copy refresh command also perform ownership transfer

Reduce the risk of delay in manual ownership transfer from a different cluster after REMOVE where the copy exists.
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Functionality already exists

Enhancement to Fusion HCI GDP metro DR

Fusion HCI Metro DR for VM requires admin to manually copy the VM yaml to DR HCI during failover. This is not automated and error prone. Customer who use HCI for VM, will run thousands of VMs. This is not practical to do it manually. Request to au...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion Functionality already exists

Deep Archive support for S3 Partial Object Retrieval

The current software version of IBM Storage Deep Archive (1.2.0) does not support S3 partial object retrieval functionality. This feature would be particularly useful in the media industry and would greatly increase the adoption of this technology...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Functionality already exists

Provide the ability to change the system layer from Storage to Replication without requiring a resynch for systems with established partnerships to allow systems to participate in FlashSystem grid.

Currently, in order for a FlashSystem to participate in FlashSystem grid they have to be in the replication layer. Prior to 8.7.0 arrays were shipped in the storage layer by default. My client has 21 FlashSystem arrays and 18 of them are currently...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Functionality already exists

GPFS 5.1.9.7 supports ubuntu22.04.1 (kernel: 5.15.0.136)

Several customers are experiencing OS panics using Ubuntu (5.15.0-72-generic). The GPFS version is 5.1.9.7 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.15.y&id=a5ee9fe48fa51a79620b041b27a94a05e7ac75a0 root...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Functionality already exists

RDMA场景下网卡存算分离

计算节点有两种RDMA网卡：mlx_1和mlx_2 存储节点有四张RDMA网卡：mlx_1 mlx_2 mlx_3 mlx_4 我们想实现这么一种组网： （1）计算节点<->存储节点只使用mlx_1和mlx_2 （2）存储节点<->存储节点（pdisk client->pdisk server）只使用mlx_3和mlx_4
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 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...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Functionality already exists

extend mmapplypolicy --scope

I have a filesystem with >1300 independent filesets and ~540 million files. Running mapplypolicy with --scope filesystem takes a long time because all inodes need to be scanned. For some mmapplypolicy runs I only need to process one fileset so ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Functionality already exists

Include environmental informations (humidity/temperature) into REST-API GET Drives and GET Library output

In order to ensure the operation of a TS4500 according to the defined environmental specifications, it must be possible to query these values directly without first collecting and evaluating drive logs and converting specific pages / hex codes to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Functionality already exists

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