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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

Enhancemnt request for setup.sh in TDP HANA 8.1.1.0 for non-local sidadm users support

We had opened case (TS001622349) as we were getting user related error while running setup.sh for Data Protection for SAP HANA 8.1.1.0 because we are not using local user. hanatest02:/opt/tivoli/tsm/tdp_hana # ./setup.shIBM Spectrum Protect for En...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Future consideration

Copy Services Manager - Need active/active or autofailover when HMC connection fails

During a storage migration the Copy Services Manager server lost communication with the DS8886 HMC. The replication status and control was unavailable until the HMC was rebooted. CSM should use both HMCs of the DS8886 and not have a single point o...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

add option to PROTECT STGPOOL TYPE=LOCAL to select the target pool

The definition of a container storage pool allows to specify up to two local protection pools (tape). When the "protect stgpool type=local" command is used to update the local protection pool(s) there is currently no way to have it update only one...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

More detailed queue information for SpectrumScale AFM prefetch via the use of a reference ID.

We would like IBM to consider tagging SpectrumScale AFM prefetch requests with a request id such that we can reference the status of a particular request - in particular if there's multiple requests being performed on a single fileset.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

LNET router equivalent for GPFS

Support LNET routers for GPFS to allow GPFS NSD servers to be connected to multiple disparate high speed fabrics without needing to directly place the NSD server on each fabric. Ideally the router would have as little state as possible and there w...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SSH ACCESS

Could you please provide SSH access in order to automatize some operations like backup of the conf ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

TRUE GUI

Why the GUI has a limited window size ? When it will be modern ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

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