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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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TS7700 GUI needs information on G0013 message

Over a weekend we received G0013 messages from our VTS's indicating loss of network access between the clusters in the grid. When attempting to diagnose the issue we logged on but saw no evidence in the Events log that would indicate a network out...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Is a defect

Migrateexts - Spectrum Virtualize documents mistake

Due to description of command migrateexts in documentation there is no mention that in case of extant migration to unmanaged disks this operation lead to fail down system with all nodes restarting to T2 recovery. This issue was solved only at 8.3....
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

support for runnign VMs in GPFS (see TS003291090)

See TS003291090 If a KVM host runs GPFS client and mounts a filesystem from a gpfs cluster. The KVM host runs a VM which uses a container file stored in the same file system under a independent fileset named kvm01 which is under the root fileset. ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Cloud pool with full local cache and no network connectivity should report out of storage space, or storage access error

When the local stgpooldirs are full for a cloud pool which has an unreachable cloud provider, attempts to write into that pool should fail, rather than hang.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Hung Disk to Cloud transfers should time out

When network connectivity to Azure is lost, Disk to Cloud transfer processes can hang. This is due to a limitation in Azure's OkHttp java API. SP should poll externally for hung sockets and time out, kill, or otherwise not hang pool operations. Si...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

show rebuild V7000 under running tasks

As you can see we've had a hard disk with a lot errors. We've changed the hdd with a new one and reset the disk status back to spare disk. After this the array began to rebuild, but you can't see anything under the GUI of the V7000. Only with a sp...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

IBM_INSTALL_fs_usage to made permanent to avoid Node issues in iBM 9500

FA utility was designed to report on the usage of /data filesystem so that you would be able to monitor for the situation you encountered on case TS017213594 related to defect SVAPAR-98497. But we noticed this not built-in and its custom utility w...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

Improve alerting when "Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working

We have noticed that “Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working our 9500 arrays causing gaps in our performance data. This has happened before on our arrays and there is no alerting that tells us, either on the array, or within Storag...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

IBM CSM API Should Show all DS8 Session/LSS/SSID In Hexadecimal to Correctly Reflect The Values on the Hardware

We recently encountered a discrepancy in our API reporting from CSM where the Session ID was not matching what is in the GUI (and on the actual DS8 hardware), and it turned out that from the CSM/web/sessions URI, all of the session/LSS/SSID values...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Is a defect

SpVirt GUI: option to set the refresh period of webpages

gui : option to set the refresh period of webpages, as it is automatic now and rather short.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Is a defect

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