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Increase number of dependent filesets

Guardant Health is using Kubernetes to control their workflow. They will have thousands of jobs and they will need thausands of PVCs. The projection is that they will go over the 10,000 fileset limit in 2022. The target for 2022 would be at least ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmchconfig maxblocksize is not dynamically changeable

PMR TS001057386.Spectrum Scale in Version 5 has a new maxblocksize default. But to Change these for old Clusters all Daemon must be down to change these parameter. The request here mmchconfig maxblocksize should be dynamicaly changeable without co...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 - Surface NTP server usage via TS7700 Management Interface

Wells Fargo has requested that the TS7700 provide a method via the Management Interface that allows them to validate they the Ts7700 is utilizing a NTP server and what the IP address is for that NTP server. NTP is currently activated by the SSR vi...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Restore Functionality - Enable the recovery of VMs as an orchestrated group

Enable the recovery of VMs as a group i.e. Consistency Group or restore group for orchestration What is meant here is the ability to recover VMs in a ordered or orchestrated fashion i.e. I have 3 servers to recover an AD server, a SQL server and a...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus VADP proxy transport modes reset during code updates

During code updates, VADP proxy transport modes get reset to default - SAN, Hot-Add, NBDSSL and NBD
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Certificate key authentication supported for SFTP log transfers

Customer would like to use an SSL Public Key option for the configured SFTP connection in the 'Settings--Support--Logs--Log Collection--Log Collection Configuration--Log Destination' Log Collection Configuration page. There is an SSL/TLS certifica...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 1 Submitted

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

make copies of existing Backupsets: either to go from Lto2 to lto4 media; and/or make duplicates for redundancy/DR issues!

make copies of existing backupsets to move the backupset from LTO2 to LTO4 tape media; to have reduntant backupsets(DR reasons) without having to issue the backupset command twice since the available creation time will not allow entering the same ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Provide TSM Client for Ubuntu s390x zLinux

Please provide a TSM Client (Spectrum Protect Client) installer for Ubuntu on s390x
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Is Spectrum Control available for a cluster installation

We need for Spectrum Control 5.4.6 cluster support for Windows 2019 for an cluster failover event. Currently we are using 2 SC Instances on Windows 2012 Its planned to do a server refresh and we want to know, if SC could be installed in a clustere...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

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