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    Support adding space by extending existing luns to vSnap server

    vSnap server should be able to have it storage luns extended. Typically, we would make 4 luns of 4 Tb each available to a vSnap server. When it needs to be extended, we just increase the existing luns by 1 or 2 Tb each.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    ReFS and S2D support for Spectrum Protect server on Windows

    The IBM Spectrum Protect server installation on Windows does currently not support the resiliant filesystem (ReFS) from Microsoft as underlying filesystem due to restrictions of supported filesystems for the DB2 database. The Spectrum Protect team...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Vmmaxvirtualdisks bigger than 8 TB

    We have customers with disk bigger than 8 TB.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    IBM SPP to show daily replication throughput

    Customer needs to know the daily replication throughput and status for SPP vsnap replication.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Show command that will be executed via GUI before confirmation

    IBM Flashsystem GUI has a nice feature that shows what cli command was executed in the backend for selected options. It would be much better to show what will be executed before confirmation.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Protocols - SMB Leasing

    Migrating system currently using a windows share to Spectrum scale and experiencing performance issues:The Windows server grantsSMB leases to the client, thus multiple opens won't break the client caching. As a result there are fewer and larger RE...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    gpfs mmputacl command

    Currently there isn't a mmputacl -R option to recursively put permissions on nested directories as you can usually do we aclput -R. Not sure why that option was left out from the beginning.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

    Multiple Retentions Standard object storage

    The ability to have multiple retentions in Standard Object Storage going to a repository server on Spectrum Protect.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Option to disable security notifications

    We need an option to disable "security notifications" entirely.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Increase online (in memory) audit log entries

    Increase number of audit log entries visible in the GUI.In the SVC code the number of online (GUI) visible audit log entries has been limited to 500. (I cannot remember in which code this started as this has been higher before, at the moment we ar...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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