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Role Based Encryption

Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Replication policy - Timer for Recovery Copy Sync

We currently see a countdown for the # of TiB remaining, would it be possible to add a time showing the approximate amount of time unles the recovery copy is in sync?
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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

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

Prevent from PMT / CPYT Throttling when PMTHLVL is exceeded but TS7700 is not at 100% Disk usage

Measures must be taken to avoid host I/O throttling kicking in solely based on the PMTHLVL. It is understandable that TS7700 prioritized work load to free up cache in order to receive new data from host. But when there is no need for Pre-Migration...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Allow emergency change of PMTHLVL w/o intervention from IBM Technician

Whenever the amount of data in the Premigration Queue becomes higher that the setting defined in PMTHLVL, a cluster may start to throttle Host I/O almost immediately. This may have a high impact on workload with high throughput. Since Feature Code...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Provide a possibility to Prioritize Work Load from customer side

TS7700 must provide a possibility to prioritize workload (Pre-Migration, Host I/O, Copy processes) on customer's demand. TS7700 can have several limitations defined, which may lead to situation where front end (host I/O) work load is lower priorit...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Log events when there are high numbers of CRC errors recorded on FC ports, low SFP power.

Large amounts of crc errors or FC ports with low power will impact the ability to serve data to hosts. We had a very obscure issue recently that was caused by a san switch SFP that had low TX power. Deep in the logs of the storage, there were erro...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under 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...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

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