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    Spectrum Control Storage Consumer report does not work when using DRP on SVC

    Storage consumer report can use Capcacity or Allocated Spaces on volumes when generating a report. Allocated space on a volume is not counted when using DRP (Data Reduction Pool) on a storage system and reported as 0. It is not possible to determi...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

    Use transactional write model and issue periodic disk cache flushes

    GPFS (at least on Linux) does not attempt to flush the cache of the block devices to which it is writing. It relies on O_DIRECT to bypass host write cache but this does not guarantee data has been flushed to stable media. This RFE requests that GP...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Datamover rebalance command should also rebalance the data each DM is responsible for rather just the number of VMs.

    The rebalance command only balances the number of VMs managed by a DataMover, but not the amount of data. We think that would be as important if not more than the number of VMs being managed. Ultimately a rebalance operation that takes both items ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Functionality already exists

    BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc)

    BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc).TSM Client is bigger than the rest of a WinPE BootCD and also containing unneeded files like JAVA. This need more time to load the image into RAM during boot a...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

    In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

    vDisks eaytier setting for balance only mode

    Given a multi tier (easytier) MDG/pool with restricted and minimal capacity in the high performance tier **. Some vdisks having only warm extents shall not use the high performance tier but still should use the "intra tier balance" feature. vDisks...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>

    When running tsm command:Q SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>The output can be a numbers of sessions.Therefore it would be great to cancel all sessions in one command:CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Flashcopy Manager Snapshot Support for Spectrum Virtualize in a Hyperswap Relationship

    Currently FCM snapshot support is only established for Spectrum Virtualize within SVC in a stretched cluster setup. We need support for snapshots for the whole Flashsystem/SVC family within a Hyperswap relation, adressing IBM AIX, VMware, Linux an...
    almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift transfers fail if Keystone token expires

    IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift uploads fail if Keystone token expires during the transfer.This applies to big files which are segmented (by the user, or by the default configuration), and to recursive uploads of directory trees.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    need to backup ndmp type=snapmirror to container storage pool

    Almost all (avout 95%) the netapp backup in Ben -Gurion unuversity, based on ndmp backup with type=snapm.This is very large volume's, includ the volumes of exchange database's.We do backup to evry volume once a month, all the month we have daily s...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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