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IBM Spectrum Control

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AIX v7.3 support for IBM Spectrum Control Server

Add AIX v7.3 to the list of OSs supported by IBM Spectrum Control Server.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Support for EMC ISLON

My customer uses Control to manager all devices and they adquire an EMC Islon that has all user files. They requested our support to homologate monitoring for this storage under Control
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

Support for EMC PowerMax storage systems

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Storage Device hierarchy - Virtualizer vs Storage devices

Spectrum Control must provide a hierarchical view of storage devices to show dependencies between backend devices and storage virtualisers such as Spectrum Virtualise or Scale.Today all are considered Storage devices and presented through a flat v...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Control - Add a capacity planning modeling function

IBM Spectrum Control uses capacity information to provide an estimated zero capacity date. I would request that this same information be utilized to allow customers to perform capacity planning modeling. Current workaround: Perform this manually u...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

Is Spectrum Control available for a cluster installation

We need for Spectrum Control 5.4.6 cluster support for Windows 2019 for an cluster failover event. Currently we are using 2 SC Instances on Windows 2012 Its planned to do a server refresh and we want to know, if SC could be installed in a clustere...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

REPL for log collection supported by Spectrum Control

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in Spectrum Control would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Ethernet Port Support

Need Ethernet support added to "Ports" so we get the same visibility as Fibre Channel Ports do. Hard to run IP Replication or ISCSI and have no visibility.P.S. I would of put a PMR # but your System is not set up to handle the "new" way of things....
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 4 Planned for future release

Requesting RHEL9.x support for Spectrum Control

Since you support RHEL7 (which is EoL now) and RHEL8 it would only be logic to also support RHEL9.x (which was released over 2 years ago). As we have tons of servers now migrating directly from RHEL7 to RHEL9 the support for it would be tremendous...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Functionality already exists

SVC/Spectrum Control iSCSI monitoring

Client wishes to have the ability to monitor performance of their iSCSI connections on SVC using Spectrum Control as they do today on their FC connections. They feel that the underlying technology is there, but do not understand why they cannot ha...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Planned for future release