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Smaller CES configuration

CES nodes support a lot of connections - but require excessive amount of memory, even when the amount of connections planned is a lot lower.128 GB as minimum for a node providing both NFS and SMB is way too much.It would be good to have support fo...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

SVC - Pool level Migration command

When introducing new storage arrays and creating a new pool, it would be nice to have a pool migration command to completely migrate 1 pool to another to more easily decommission older storage in a more timely manner.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Restore VM for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines to be enhance to add parameter destinationfilespec

We need to restore Hyper-V virtual machines backup to different server at different location. Since this functionality is not available in restore vm command we are not able to restore VM to different lcoation. As per IBM L2 support TSM doesn't su...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Snooze alert in Storage Insights

As a SI user admin , I want to be able to Snooze a notification so that I can prioritize the work to be done
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC Compellent

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs. Customer also use vPlex+VNXe for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Collapse all option desired for GUI Volumes dialog

In the FlashSystem / Storage Virtualize GUI, the Volumes option lists three lines for every primary volume in a HyperSwap configuration. Each primary volume has a 'twistie' to close the secondary line items, but all volumes are expanded on dialog ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Support use of Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) in virtual mode in conjunction with the IBM FlashSystem SRA in VMware SRM

MSP wants to provide possiblity of this setup to one of their tenants.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Enhanced admin security for ESS

Administrative access to ESS (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

Correction of data usage on remote storage needed

When using TSM as remote storage for FB4WKS/CDP4Files, the amount of data being used as reported by the client does not match the number from the occupancy report in TSM.This is not an optimal solution, if clients are billed based on the number of...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

optional Heartbeat to ecurep / callhome cloud

Similar to other Products (Scale / DS800 / Storvize) We could create a Heartbeat and send periodical GDPR complient data to Ecurep. The Data could contain current versions, some usage stats, open events etc. This would give us more feedback about ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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