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Storwize V7000 automatic SNAP sent together with call home for problem notification

In case of hardware incident reported by automatic call home function of the Storwize have the possibility to send also an automatically generated SNAP.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Multiple block sizes at the pool level

Pools could be configured with different block sizes (not metablocks) based on workload requirement.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

[BDA] Ability to see what is in the cache

Use:  mmlscache gives containing directory, file, size/blocks, % used of cache, cache hits, last access time etc.  -Y option
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Manually provide Product and LUN-Identifiers for sd*-disks

Spectrum Protect Snapshot (SPS) identifies the available disks by issuing a series of low-level Linux commands which deliver the LUN-ID and Product-ID of these devices. Among others:- dmsetup- searching /sys/block/sd*/dev- Requesting SCSI pages 0x...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Reclaim of offsite Filling volumes

On old style copypools and the new style protect stg to local tape, reclaim does not occur on tape volumes in state Filling.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

mmbackup including "virtual domains"

mmbackup on gpfs 4.1.1.2 with 69 EXCLUDE-statements needs a preparation time of > 2days.The scanning time to receive the inode-list in the /tmp-directory took about 2 hours.The main part of the additional time was needed for creating the weight...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Restore VM with excluded hard disks requires to much space on datastore

I want to restore a VM under a new name and exclude all data disks from that vm for the restore. Only the disk containing the operating system should be restored. When I invoke that restore with the option "vmdk=Hard Disk 1", only the VM and the d...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

QoS Settings Should be per Pool, not per Node

Currently QoS Settings for Pools are per Node, not per Cluster. QoS settings should exist per pool per Cluster instead. This will prevent excess effort in management and maintenance in storage environments.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to report IO Density in GUI for QoS Settings Montioring

Currently you cannot see the reports for the performance of volumes with QoS settings in the GUI. There is no indication of how closely the volumes are vs. the QoS settings nor their peaks.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Throttling at Pool Level Should Apply to All Volumes in Pool

The Bandwidth or IOPs settings should apply to all volumes in a pool instead of the pools themselves and be across whole clusters.This will save considerable operational effort and tooling development time.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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