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change tape read/write throughput rates

Testing of Tapeoperations (move data) and got a throughput of only 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s with LTO7 tapedrives - in a Situation where nothing else happened
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum protect with java version 11

The latest version of the Java that is supported with the SP for VE and the server is version 8 which means that Java version 11 is not supported as it hasn't been tested. But our customer is planning to remove Java 8 on all the servers across the...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 12 Planned for future release

Default Lifecycle Policy

Setting up a default lifecycle policy from the cluster management which would be in effect for every bucket by default unless the bucket owner puts a custom lifecycle policy on the bucket. This would in effect force the users to either set-up thei...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Planned for future release

can not use Spectrum protect over san in ERP Database

We was working with AIX os and use Spectrum protect to backup the ERP Database on it using Oversan We moved the production server to SUSE enterprise 15 , but now the problem as in the case that over san is not supported with suse 15, and it is urg...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI - This is creating lots of confusion when they ask why values are not showing similarity and why there is big differences in val...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

CBR3750I message issued during service prep mode, because of service prep mode

When a TS7700 cluster is put in service prep mode for maintenance (RCL, for example), it ignores that it is in service prep mode and continues to issue CBR3750I message as if it was not. Some of those CBR messages generate false positive ticket an...
about 1 month ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Separation of SCSI UNMAP and other offload workloads from offload throttle

SCSI UNMAP rate can oversubscribe backend storage, and rate can be reduced with application of offload throttle on cluster. But this bring other challenges where this offload throttle also throttles XCOPY and other related offload workloads - whic...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

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