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Support user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level.

We have a large RFP where the proposed file system must have user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level. We have a strong competition from DDN so ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Secure Data Deletion/Erase with IBM to automatically generate a confirmation document

After succesful deletion/erase of data on drives, an IBM document of comfirmation would help to comply with internal client security guidelines Currently we can use:- SV internal commands chdrive -task erase/format commands or we can provide- Secu...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Spectrum CDM Deployment on MS Hyper-V Virtualization

We're working with LULU for their SAP HANA requirement and proposing Spectrum CDM to fulfill their App/DB consistent snapshots for the mentioned retention period here Every 2 hours snapshot for Prod Infra with 7 days retention (12x7= 82 flashcopie...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

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.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

Realization of FlashCopy restore(reverse FlashCopy) while keeping 3-site HyperSwap relationships

One limitation at this time is that the 3-site HyperSwap relationship must be deleted to perform a reverse FlashCopy, in which case the 3-site HS is reconfigured to cause an initial copy. Reverse FlashCopy are used as one of the normal operationa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Allow MONITOR role to 'view' all (or most) items and configurations in CSM

Currently the MONITOR role in CSM does not allow access to things like port pairing csv or authentication settings and even the scheduled tasks. As a result we always need an ID with ADMINISTRATIVE access. Per our firm's security standards the adm...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 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.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Add security certificate expiration date to "query status" output

Current options for viewing security certificate include an actlog entry when the server is started and an option to toggle on an ANR message for every session. Having the expiration date in the query status output would make an easy way for custo...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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