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IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

Auto expansion of inode to trigger once usage reaches around 95%

Today the Scale alerts and auto expansion are triggered when inode usage is very close to 100% and typically that means when the filesystem in use is very active and busy and is not optimal for performance. Would like to see the auto expansion of ...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Allow CSI driver for Flashsystem to define PortSet

The client is using FS9500 to automatically provision Block Storage to BareMetal Openshift servers through the IBM CSI Driver.As a shared infrastructure the client has deployed separated private network for each OCP cluster with Portsets.Today the...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Support for vCloud Director

We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

Ability to open a case via Storage Insights for Brocade switches.

Clients are currently unable to open a case to IBM support via Storage Insights for any added to their instance Brocade switch. A feature allowing this would be nice.
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Capability to throttle vdisk by defining a goal response time (possibility to delay an I/O to a value)

There are an increasing number of clients asking for the functionality of specifying the goal response time of a volume (vdisk), so that it doesn't go faster than this goal and does not use resources that could be used by other volumes.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Only Report Status on Relevant Paths from Storage Systems Panel

In our environment, we have IP to z/OS connectivity enabled. As such, we have ZOS:NATIVE connections and IP to z/OS connections to other LPARs. For the ZOS:NATIVE connections, it is not possible for the Standby server to connect via FICON to the s...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Performance data exported from SI should be in customer timezone

Performance data exported from SI are always provided in CST timezone, not in customer timezone. this is a concert for the user
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

Tape replace to skip bad file

RPQ: 672-92701 When Tape state is changed to need_replace and require_replace, customer was told to migrate their data from bad tape to a new tape cartridge. While if there is a damaged file in the replace tape, ”eeadm tape replace” will stop at t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Support migrate and recall REST API in storage archive

RPQ: 672-92700 As we know, in hyperscale tape storage system tape archive node works with customer distributed storage system. The current interface between tape archive and customer distributed storage system is command, it is limited in local OS...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

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