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Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for SMI-S CIM Agent for 3rd party SRM monitoring support

Require an SMI-S CIM Agent to be developed for SCALE / ESS to allow 3rd party SRM tool discovery and support (NetApp OnCommand, SolarWinds....etc) for capacity and performance monitoring. It is understood that Spectrum Control can be used with the...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Need approved process to create new secondary for protocol cluster AFM-based DR

With AFM-based DR, I am familiar with the process for creating a new secondary when the original secondary is lost (mmafmctl <filesystem> changeSecondary). What is the process for creating a new secondary when mmcesdr is being used to manage...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - exclude

1. exclude -vm=all-powered-off<br /><br />We are having issues with lot of powered off VM's    being backed. Need to have a global suboption to exclude poweroff vm's.<br /><br />2. recognize the inclexcl file &nbs...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Need a configurable timeout value for IBM Spectrum Scale replication

When a V7000 disk failure occured, whole RAID5 array couldn't complete I/O request from AIX OS at all, for about 100 seconds.After 100 seconds, the failed drive was removed from the array, then V7000 returned to normal operation and responded to A...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Strowize/SVC GUI "Configure Storage" wizard to show projected Pool Usable Capacity per user selections

Enhance Strowize/SVC GUI "Configure Storage" wizard to show projected Pool Usable Capacity per user selections, will allow the user to see the resulting Usable Capacity of the Pool prior to its Creation.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management to support BtrFS for file system snaps

While on a SuSE OS LPAR the file system snapshot management is working for XFS, however the protection is not available for BtrFS (by default used for SuSE OS)
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

"Autoexpand" option for THIN and Compressed volumes on SVC

We are currently using IBM SVC v7.5.x and v7.6.x. We found that while creating THIN or Compressed volumes using GUI, option "Automatically Expand" option is enabled by default, however while creating THIN and Compressed volumes using CLI, we need ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Collect the file space information in TSM monitoring and reporting

Currently the file space (q filespace) information from the TSM server is not being captured in the Monitoring and reporting application. The information that I am needing the most is the file space capacity and the percentage utilized.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Restore to Alternate Location Options

Restoring a VM to an alternate location is lacking sufficient details and options to allow for a prompt and quick restore.1. The drill-down provided goes from data center to ESX host and then to data store. I believe another option to select a clu...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Ability to encrypt export media

TSM based Application Encryption uses the TSM Server database to store encryption keys. It is currently not possible to encrypt export tapes (self-describable media) as there is no documented method to extract the applicable encryption key from th...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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