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    Enhance AFM to transfer NFSv4 ACLs from NFS servers like Isilons and store the ACLs correct as GPFS ACLs

    Storage Scale and Storage Scale System are great products. But in many cases, another storage is already used and there are no easy ways to migrate PBytes of data - except perhaps with AFM? Almost all installations use e.g. AD integrations and NFS...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Include environmental informations (humidity/temperature) into REST-API GET Drives and GET Library output

    In order to ensure the operation of a TS4500 according to the defined environmental specifications, it must be possible to query these values directly without first collecting and evaluating drive logs and converting specific pages / hex codes to ...
    12 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

    Alerting method for the status of data collectors

    It would be useful when a data collector has stopped randomly, having an alerting method would allow us to rectify this and get the collector working again.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Functionality already exists

    Create customer-viewable "Storage Fusion IBM Service/Support Reference Guide"

    The consensus of several IBM Storage Fusion HCI users and IBMers ( including Storage Fusion HCI HW Service Planning) is: A "Storage Fusion HCI / SW Support Reference Guide", similar to the external customer-facing IBM Elastic Storage Server Suppor...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Functionality already exists

    Improvement in Data connections filter in UI

    In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a filter would be very useful especially because we are already dealing with more than 300 data sources. At the moment it is very cumbersome to f...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Functionality already exists

    Make usage time series information available via the Spectrum Scale API

    The Spectrum Scale Management GUI has time series information available for GPFS file systems and filesets. This information includes (but is not limited to) the change in block usage (i.e. how much space used) and change in inode usage. However t...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Functionality already exists

    extend mmapplypolicy --scope

    I have a filesystem with >1300 independent filesets and ~540 million files. Running mapplypolicy with --scope filesystem takes a long time because all inodes need to be scanned. For some mmapplypolicy runs I only need to process one fileset so ...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

    Monitoring and Alerting Local Filesystems Usage in Advance for IBM 9500 Nodes

    Recently due to Node error 565 "Node internal disk is failing" due to /dumps full getting we discovered the impact where the nodes to be rebooted due to nodes reported in service state.. panel_name cluster_id cluster_name node_id node_name relatio...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    Applications with VMs instead of hosts.

    Most customers use same VMware ESX hosts for multiple VM's and grouping by host (applications) doesn't help to analyze/monitor specific VM's.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Functionality already exists

    In local Encryption Context , Customer have no wy to check encryption status. This lead into long run discussion with no ending when need to supply encryption evidence to SecurityAudit Team"

    When only have FC5272 using local encryption mgr, for data at rest . VTS admin people cannot supply trustable evidences to Security Team about the encryption status. We raise a case TS015965829 , we were explain, the the VTS MI data encryption tab...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Functionality already exists

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