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Add quota logging capability to keep overall quota accounting consistent

For performance, nowadays, most of quota information is stored and updated in memory. Then, it will be synced back to disk in an asynchronous way later. However, there isn't a recovery mechanism for GPFS quota in abnormal situations. These can mak...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Retain a backup of Copy Services Manager installer file, when CSM was upgraded via DS CLI installsoftware process

During DS8000 HMC reload or upgrade, CSM is back-leveled if the Customer had previously upgraded to a higher level, using the installsoftware process. The installsoftware process removes the CSM installer file upon successful completion, making it...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Detaching BVIR processing from IBMTOOLS - Integration in TS7700 GUI

Hi, every TS7700 user knows the procedure with downloading ibmload, ibmcntl, ibmjcl... from the ibmtools library etc. This is necessary to be able to further process BVIR data generated by the system on the zos. In order to be able to process new ...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Future consideration

Check and Remove existing IR bitmap when Preparing for Secondary Migration to avoid full copy during resync to new secondary

The CSM secondary migration feature uses the IR bitmap on the primary system to perform an incremental resync to a new secondary system. Actually, when CSM perform the Prepare for Secondary Migration step, it will request the DS8000 to set the IR ...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance AFM to transfer NFSv4 ACLs from NFS servers like Isilons and store the ACLs correct as GPFS ACLs

Storage Scale and Storage Scale System are great products. But in many cases, another storage is already used and there are no easy ways to migrate PBytes of data - except perhaps with AFM? Almost all installations use e.g. AD integrations and NFS...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

No direct option for secondary copy to cloud and no immutable copy feature

Spectrum Protect Integrating with the cloud for a secondary copy streamlines backups, eliminating the need for an another on-premises backup server. This approach offers cost efficiency, scalability, remote accessibility, redundancy, automated man...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Remove Node Feature in Spectrum Scale CNSA

Currently in the CNSA Implementation there are no way to reduce a define CNSA-Cluster to one or more Nodes, like a mmdelnode step. The Operator has no function to do these necessary step to reduce a cluster with these request.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Improve the performance of small I/O for large files when AFM was enable

I have two storage scale cluster with AFM enable,cluster A as Primary for production,B as secondary for backup,my production cluster performance Seriously degradation whe using small I/O for large files（In most cases, there is up to a thirtyfold d...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

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