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    Spectrum Protect should support Linux GFS2 filesystem

    GFS2 is the standard filesystem used by Red Hat clusters for concurrent storage. It's in the same class of filesystem storage as GPFS (Spectrum Scale)
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is Windows node

    When run from Scale node on x86 RHEL 7.3 (x86), mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is a Windows node.Moreover, it fails inconsistently when used with the node's "Scale" interface vs. the Admin node name, providing additional confusion.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    show rebuild V7000 under running tasks

    As you can see we've had a hard disk with a lot errors. We've changed the hdd with a new one and reset the disk status back to spare disk. After this the array began to rebuild, but you can't see anything under the GUI of the V7000. Only with a sp...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

    EasyTier Pool new extent allocation on specific Tier

    Build an option for SVC Easter pools so that we can set the allocation of new extents to a specific tier level.
    almost 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Production restore folder

    "Restore in production mode if Vcenter is down" option works but this restore creates a directory in the datastore with the name of VM. If the VM folder is not identical to VM name, the production restore doesn't maitain the original name.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership

    IBM Spectrum Protect Server v8.1.9.300:Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership Currently, the replicate node command works on node names, lists of node names, wildcards of node names, node groups, or lists of node groups. We wish...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    GUI customization

    OEM partners hope to customize the Scale GUI with specific logo. There is a scheme in GUI that still show IBM Spectrum Scale RAID logo on GUI dashboard. We need dev team to cook a total solution that allowing OEM partners to replace their product ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM should support the shared tapedrive feature of TS3500

    TSM 7.1 on AIX 7.1 with TS3500 tape library. ANR8300E I/O error on Ts3500 tape library OP=(00006c03). I have 4 E07 tape drives in this physical library I have 2 logical libraries with the robotics and one tape drive assigned to each library, and t...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Make reports that are saved into the report folder available via the GUI

    Many people don't login to the Control host when accessing Control, it's more common accessed via a web browser. If your environment hasn't been setup for email it makes accessing reports very difficult. Especially when you don’t want regular emai...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

    SPP - Support for Centrify dzdo where sudo is called

    Spectrum Protect Plus has a requirement for the Linux sudo command to be present for installation and configuration tasks. My customer has a security requirement where sudo commands are not allowed. Customer uses Centrify dzdo to provide the eleva...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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