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    CES NFS - pNFS

    Support pNFS (specifically, multiple pNFS CES clusters for any given number of filesystems). There appears to be support for pNFS within the GPFS Ganesha FSAL but at present it's not documented, certainly not supported, and doesn't seem to work.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    SPP default policy creation after software upgrade

    At initial install some SLA policies are created by default. I have no containers and Amazon EC2 instances to protect, so I don't need the default policies "Container" and "EC2" and have deleted both policies. But they are recreated after every sy...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

    please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

    Detailed VM Backup Utilization report

    This RFE is for improving the reporting function. What I think SPP is in need of is a more detailed report of storage usage per VM or application. More specific a presentation of deduplication ratio and compression ratio, with sizes in bytes - bef...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    IBM Storage Snapshots support for Virtualize, Flash Systems and Storwize in SPP

    SPP should be able to benefit from IBM Storage Snapshots (Flash Copy) during backup by using them to minimize the impact of the backup on the system to be backed up and, if necessary, to accelerate the backup process.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Planned for future release

    CLI to set Restful API requests limits

    As for now request limits for restful API are hard-coded in SVC. See table in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sanvolumecontroller/8.5.x?topic=svc-spectrum-virtualize-restful-api. For some use cases it makes sense to set the limits higher to enable aut...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Enhancement Request - Automating audit operations to detect damaged extents, inconsistencies, and corrupted files in the background

    Periodic runs of the audit containers command or using audit stgrule options are required to scan the chunks and detect any inconsistencies and damages. This is an intensive and manual operation that adds additional overhead to the Storage Protect...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Adjust CSM panel scroll windows with Browser window size and support filters

    There are a couple of panels in CSM GUI which do not adjust their scroll list window size to the browser window size. This results in small CSM scroll windows which may contain very long lists although there is plenty of white space in the browser...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Request for IBM i partitions to not allow more than the maximum number of supported disks per Virtual FC connection/adapter.

    When customers add disk and multiple paths beyond the supported limits (i.e. 127 paths), they are allowed to do this, until they IPL and fail with SRC A6005090, A6000255, A6000266 without any obvious indication of why the IPL failed. This request ...
    8 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

    ability to use SSH for Brocade switches

    The current way to add brocade switch/fabrics is only by HTTP or HTTPS. Without the ability to use SSH we can not use Insights features since HTTP and HTTPS has been disabled in our environment.
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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