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Safeguard-immutable copies should remain until their retention expires

Currently, if there isn't enough space for a safeguarded copy, old copies are removed from the DS8 to allow for the new copy to take place. A safeguarded copy should never expire before it's retention period. Safeguarded copies should stop, and al...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Include DNS server input information in SVC GUI during e-Mail server setup

When input in the SVC GUI's setup view the e-Mail server related information there is currently no possibility to enter DNS server related details. Can this be included in the input screen in future releases ?
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

TSM for VE: Instant Restore for full VM Restore

Currently TSM for VE only supports near instant restore for singe disks/volumes/file systems. For a restore of a whole virtual machine, no instant restore is possible. One possibility to provide this functionality would be following: 1. Make the T...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

V7000 Security Vulnerabilities related to DISA STIG findings

SPAWAR engineering component for the Dept of the Navy is considering the IBM V7000 for several Navy programs storage requirements. All systems/devices that are to be considered for procurement need to go through Security Technical Implementation G...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Starting/Stop Cluster without all nodes available

A Spectrum Archive cluster can only be started when all nodes are online and available. This makes that the cluster cannot be recovered when one of the server has a hardware failure.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Delivered

More detailed user rights on SVCs

We need more detailed user rights for the users on the SVCs and V7000 Systems. We will begin to use the FCM (Tivoli Flash Copy Manager) for many different applications/systems. But now must the FCM have a SVC user with admin (that means, complete ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Authentication when using SMTP to send email

DS8000 uses SMTP to send emails for Monitoring and notifications. Actually there is no possibility to send emails with authentication (SMTP user and password). Security is getting more and more important. Our SMTP server does not allow unauthentic...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Improve Visibility of TS7700 DDM Status, proactively report the status of DDM failures, availabliuty of spares and rebuilds.

Provide the ability for customers to inquire on DDM status within a TS7700 complex through the TS7700 GUI. In specific the ability to see the status of all drives, how many spares are within a RAID group and in particular the status of any RAID re...
about 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Delivered

Add callback for hard quota limit reached.

It would be useful to have a callback option for when hard quota limits where reached. While softQuotaExceeded and usageUnderSoftQuota are very useful, we would like to have an option to register a call back to be notified if a USR, GRP, or FILESE...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Non disruptive volume migration between Storwize devices

I would like to migrate hosts between members of the Storwize family without needing an outage on each host. The current methods for this are either through image mode migration or replication. Both of these methods require an outage on the host t...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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