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gpfsperf script improvements

Though gpfsperf is a sample script, it needs improvements so that the customer local file does not get filled and cause gpfs issues: - Indicate in the read me file that the local tmp file needs to large enough for the filesize to be tested - Indic...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Node replication at lower priority

Ability to have 'repl node' command run at a lower, or user definable, priority.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

High redundancy SAS connection between expansion ecnlosure

The current design in SAS chain can't tolerate the middle of expansion enclosure fail.The middle of expansion enclosure failed will lead to pool offline.Customer hope IBM can provide high redundancy SAS chain to tolerate any of expansion enclosure...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Replication of Larger file systmes from COS

Hi Mitul, I have the answer now for the difference between client restore from cloud vs replication from cloud 1: the normal restore from the cloud was making use of the chunk cache and async read. Those tools can in some cases make the restore fr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Require key auth SSH only for Storage Insights, SpectrumScale

System: IBM Spectrum Control Storage InsightsActor: Organisation needing new auth-method enabled to be able to consume platform UQ has evolved data governance, capacity management and growth metrics as a key import factor in project planning and f...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Documentation for HMC password change

For security concern, it is needed to change the default password of all the HMC of a ESS storage appliance.I didn't find any documentation to follow for this task. I was able to modify the HMC passwords through the HTTP interfaces. With the IBM s...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Add option to mmlsfileset to list only independent or dependent filesets

mmlsfileset does not have a direct way to list dependedent or independent filesets. While is possible wrapping out the output of mmlsfileset -L/-Y to then pass it to mmcrsnapshot so only quiescence the IO once. I wonder if it is possible to add --...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Decommissioning Commands

To implement a "DECOM NODE" command so node is automatically renamed as per default configuration and data to be automatically deleted when provided retention period is reached
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

REST API as part of build test plan

The REST API is not being tested prior to packaging new Operation Center builds. This was found in 8.1.4 because a module version was upgraded, but not updated in the server.xml file. No one in L1 nor L2 knew about this issue, but it was immediate...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Manage Automatic Move Container process

Create an option to manage the time that the IBM Spectrum Protect server can start the Automatic Move Container processes.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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