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Easy Tier with Real-time Compression performance improvement

As of 7.1 Easy Tier on compressed volumes takes only read operations into account when deciding to promote or demote an extent. However if the same extent that has been promoted (or just marked for promotion) also receives write operations, then b...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Need scalable way to determine if remote file system is mountable (JUMP Trading LLC)

The `mmlsfs` command is used to determine if a node is able to mount a remote file system as part of our systemd Spectrum Scale service startup scripts. However the `mmlsfs` command appears to communicate back to the Cluster Manager node in order ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Addition of nodes in Spectrum Scale cluster without checking for GPFS software or node availability

Current the `mmaddnode` command requires that the node be available and that the GPFS software installed on the node matches the current cluster configuration. This does not allow us to add nodes that are not currently available and our system aut...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Handling sparse files

This is similar to RFE 101191, but for versions of Linux that don't support lseek with SEEK_HOLE. For those versions of Linux, is it possible to use ioctl with FS_IOC_FIEMAP ?See the source code for BSD tar (not GNU tar) for details. When I was op...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Net-SNMP support is required for GPFS monitoring for AIX

System: IBM Spectrum ScaleActor: CustomerIBM Spectrum Scale is a flexible software-defined storage that can be deployed as high performance file storage or a cost optimized large-scale content repository. Description: Our customer would like to mo...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Granular Permisions

I need the ability to be able to assign more granular permissions to users logging on the Storwise or SVC. For example why cant a user account assigned the "Service Role" run a fix procedure?
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Skipping sub-folder from TSM backup process without impacting its previous backup

I want to skip a sub-folder on a Windows drive (or a sub-directory on a Linux file system) from the TSM client incremental backup process. When I say 'skipping a sub-folder', I mean not to back up this sub- folder starting from tonight but not to ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TDP for VE backup exclude files

We have a Windows VM ware which having SQL database . We have scheduled the SQl backups through TDP for SQL and snapshot backup through TDP for VE(It's a client requirement ) So here we are facing an issue that Snapshot backup is taking the databa...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSMVE unable to backup VMs at highest parent folder level

Issue in scheduling backups using VSphere protection using TSMVE, where the VMware enviroment is setup as VCloud Director. As the setup for VMWare is VCD, each folder in VSphere represents a unique customer organization with long names having UUID...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Extend delete filespace command to provide ability for multiple filespace deletion

Provide an extension to delete filespace command to specify multiple comma separated filespace names or filespace id's and/or an option to excliude filespaces (e.g. like "delete filespace <nodename> * exclude.fs=<fs.anme or fs.id>").
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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