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Implement the possibility to balance host I/O throttling on cache partition level

When TS7700 runs into host I/O throttling, this throttling is equal across all CPx partitions today. Since work load on different CPx may have higher or lower priority in the business/application context, it is required to have the possibility to ...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI - This is creating lots of confusion when they ask why values are not showing similarity and why there is big differences in val...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

Spectrum Virtualize "IO pause" on node leave and join is entirely too long

When a node leaves or joins a Spectrum Virtualize cluster (SVC, V7K, FS9100, etc), the cluster imposes an "IO pause" on the order of 10 or more seconds. This is unacceptably long, especially in a flash environment.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

support volume groups in ownership groups

When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Change the number of invalid logon attempts from lock the account or the node to a ban/black list of ip address

Starting with IBM Spectrum® Protect 8.1.15, the minimum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed before a node or administrator account is locked is changed from 0 to 1. The maximum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed is 10....
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Default Lifecycle Policy

Setting up a default lifecycle policy from the cluster management which would be in effect for every bucket by default unless the bucket owner puts a custom lifecycle policy on the bucket. This would in effect force the users to either set-up thei...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Planned for future release

Enable TCP keepalive also for inbound connections

Currently the dsmserv enables TCP Keepalive only for outbound connections, as the KEEPALIVE server option describes. However, for the server it's more interesting to have TCP Keepalive for inbound connections in order to be able to detect connecti...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups

Customers want the ability to migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups. This is due to when customers want to split VMs up already in existing SLAs currently this needs a full backup to be re-run and therefore more space needed in...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add a Utility node with FC cards

Add a Utility node with fc cards, so we can deliver a full IBM Storage solution with IBM Storage Archive, without having to involve Power brand.A utility node with enogh memory and fc card would fulfil this gap in our options when building a Scale...
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Submitted

Data integrity check per dasd volume

Right now, data integrity is very very important in all IT systems. Very often, we would perform dasd volume copy in daily BAU or in system upgrade steps. We need to have a easy to use, straight forward and fast method to compare the data in 2 das...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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