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Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.

Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Custom certificate for TSM-VE for VMware plugin

I would like to get an interface or at least a procedure (commands) to replace the builtin autogenerated certificate push in TSM-VE plugin for VMware. Actually, we need to manually install this autogenerated certificate on each new machine that co...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Storwize does not provide guidance for volume sizes

Storage Products in the portfolio do NOT provide performance based advice/guidance on running environments. For Example: I want to create a 16PB volume; Spectrum Virtualize instead recommends a more sensible volume size range.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Poor Backend Device Configurations are propogated to the Storwize

Poor Backend Device Configurations, for example: DS8K with 42 pools are not prevented or warned on during setup. This causes problems as configurations which propagate bad habits are just ignored
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow tape drive to be part of more than one logical library

I would like to have the possibility to assign one tape drive in a TS4300 to more than one logical library. Most tape libraries currently are not over-utilized, meaning there are a lot free time slots where drives are not in use. Having multiple (...
almost 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Not under consideration

Host across ownership group

Customer replaced A9000 with FS9500 and runs into this issue: on SpVirt, the host object is part of the ownership group (tenant domain) (<> A9 did not consider hosts as part of the 'tenancy domain'). There is a manual workaround (chghostcl c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Flashcopy Offload Optimization of db2_all command

Offload apparently waiting for several minutes.We saw issues during our offload testing with failing db2inidb commands when the log directories were not there. That is why we created the piece of code to create the log directories. Since for multi...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Prioritization of mmrestripefs -r block rebuilds

When a FPO mmrestripefs -r kicks off it should prioritize rebuilding blocks that have 2 duplicates missing over blocks that only have one duplicate missing.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target server

The node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target replication server.Occasionally, node replication will complete with a FAILURE in spite of replicating all objects after having a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Manually importing global mirror relationships from IBM Storwize products to IBM CSM without deleting consistency groups

Should have capability to import existing Global Mirror relationships to Copy Services Manager.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

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