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IBM_INSTALL_fs_usage to made permanent to avoid Node issues in iBM 9500

FA utility was designed to report on the usage of /data filesystem so that you would be able to monitor for the situation you encountered on case TS017213594 related to defect SVAPAR-98497. But we noticed this not built-in and its custom utility w...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

Policy Based replication - Keep the target volume mapped to the host when the source volume is removed from the source volume group

On Policy Based replication, When I remove a volume from the source volume group, it should only remove the volume from the target volume group, the volume should not get removed from the array or mapping. It should still be available under the ho...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Configure TSM4VE without SP Admin Access

IBM Storage Protect is a popular Service Provider product and it is possible to buy backup functionality using IBM Storage Protect as a backup engine. But all of them is created to only run old legacy backup like installing client in the operating...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Node lock

Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

SPP - Datastore Utilisation Check

Please can SPP have a setting to check the utilisation % of a datastore prior to backing up to ensure that the snapshot being taken does not risk the datastore running out of space.This can then be checked by SPP prior to each VM being backed up, ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

HPO to support InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to have HPO support for deployment on InfiniBand infrastructure.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA on OpenShift on bare-metal along with InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to support CNSA on bare-metal OpenShift with InfiniBand by June 2023. Workaround of CNSA on VMware with InfiniBand is not supported, because OpenShift does not supp...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP Migrate Offloaded Data between different Cloud Providers

Spectrum Protect Plus should provide a functionality to migrate offloaded backups between cloud providers.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration