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    Bandwidth limitations / Traffic shaping / QOS for data communication

    Sometimes different clients in a Spectrum Scale cluster have different IO performance requirements, but the options to resolve this by choosing adequate HW are somewhat limited. Consider clients using InfiniBand (RDMA), which will most likely use ...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale GUI - Increase the size of the login banner field

    Many sites are required to present a legal warning on systems when a connection is initiated. Currently the Spectrum Scale login banner field is restricted to ~44 characters which is not sufficiently large enough to hold our required legal warning...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Support tiering from cloud to directory container storage pools

    Currently, SP only supports tiering data from a directory container storage pools to cloud container storage pools. Once your data has moved to the cloud, you won't be able to move it back. The only way to do this is by destroying (!) your data in...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Storing File Permission and ACL on LTFS

    Because of our security requirement we want to store the file and acl permissions, owner and group info already for the files that are migrated to tape with spectrum archive.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Tape optimized inline copy on filelist backup for HSM managed filesystems

    We have a IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) file system which is HSM managed using the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client. In addition we are using the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client to backup those data, driven by the mmbackup t...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    include/exclude a directory structure from archive

    include.archive and exclude.archive options do not work for a directory structure. F.i. it is possible to exclude files from directory /exampleDir using definition 'exclude.archive "/exampleDir/*"' and also from all its subdirectories using defini...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Future consideration

    Oracle ACFS Support for Copy Data Management

    Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is evaluating CDM v2.2.9 for Oracle. SQL has passed the eval. Oracle is running ACFS as the standard at NFCU. Looking for CDM support for ACFS
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel

    A need to show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel by category will be very helpful and enhance the TS7700 MI usability.
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    VDisk Mirror monitoring events

    Customer is requesting the addition of events for situations when SVC cannot update a vdiskcopy of a mirrored vdisk anymore. Furthermore TPC should capture and ad a constraint for those events, so that an admin can look at a constraint violation r...
    over 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    RPO Monitoring by using the CSM status

    The RPO is monitoring in a CSM Global Mirror session by using RPO alerts, according to warning and severe level thresholds. When RPO warning level is reached an IWNR2751W message will be seen in the CSM console log, and when RPO severe level is re...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

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