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    Ability to Specify protocol -- rdma/tcp -- along with the subnet/cluster reachability

    Consider the following use-case: There are two clusters each with multiple nodes. The intra-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes within the cluster) happens via TCP and inter-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes between clusters) happens v...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    using remote clients as helper nodes for policy scans and processing migration

    Usually, IBM recommends to pool all ESS Storage Servers in a so called storage cluster and then connect one or multiple remote client / or so called / compute clusters to the ESS. In fact, thats meanwhile a common best practice cluster topology. O...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Add support for client encryption on deduplicated data

    Support of client specified encryption (password) is needed for client side deduplication. This feature is desired to cover all types of clients from IBM - Backup-Archive, TSM4VE, TDP for SQL, TDP for mail and so on.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for nested LDAP groups and a test LDAP function

    Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups and enable a test function for LDAP setup
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester

    Restore functionality – Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enable text based output from Rest API

    Rest API query for license usage comes out as pdf, excel or html. These are not well suited to import to other systems for automation. I would like the output as text, like csv file.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

    Spacereservation in compressed pools

    In systems with with Flashmodules and compression always on there should be a integrated process to reserve some space for emergency release. As these systems are designed for overprovisioning this is a lack of security.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect - stgrule subrule, allow groups to be specified and not just clients

    stgrule subrule - allow groups and/or wildcards to be used for subrules. For example, at the moment I have 500 clients, some I want to tierbystate and some tierbyage. To keep my setup simple, I have one staging pool which tiers to one cloud pool. ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Change the user running admin schedules

    It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Converting Fusion HCI from a connected cluster to a disconnected cluster

    Some customers prefer to install Fusion HCI using online image registry for a faster implementation and disconnect Fusion HCI to use a local image registry once HCI is setup.
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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