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    Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced

    When using quotas on Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced. Native Scale commands can report on how much grace is left. SI (and presumably SC) doesn't report this.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Allow for import of Wildcard Certificate on FS5200 for securing WebUI

    Currently on the FS5200, you have to create a certificate request and then upload the certificate generated from the request in order to secure the WebUI on the FS5200. We use Wildcard Certificates so that we don't have to order a new cert for eac...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Link the volume name to the subsession on LSVOL command

    Customer is scripting command in open environment with CSMSCLI.The environment is a GM environment with the use of sub-session as the customer wants a granularity at the VM level.He needs to find to whom session LUN(s) belongs to in order to creat...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Update on "best effort" Support

    Our University uses TSM Client for our site-wide backup and archive strategy. However we have multple Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS instances. Some are under "best effort". Recently the actual debian (v8, released in April 2015) is not in this list. I...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

    Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Intellectual disk drive updates

    If the system has multiple types of disks and a user tries to upgrade all of them, some disks may fail to update. This causes the whole upgrade process to stop and leave all the remaining disks (even upgradable) at an older version. In this case a...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Exclude VMs based on VM size/.vmdk size with dsm.opt/cloptset exclusion

    With the explosion of virtual machines taking over our datacenters, using TSM for Virtual Environments is crucial to successfully protecting the data in our IT organizations. It is obvious that there is no "one size fits all" tool for protecting t...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Concurrent upgrades for Spectrum Scale Protocol Nodes

    Currently, upgrades to Spectrum Scale are disruptive, documented to be 20 minutes per node. The stated reason is that SMB versions cannot co-exist, however, it is likely that not all upgrades introduce a new version of SMB.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE snapshots

    System: TSM for VE 6.4.0New feature request for future release Description: TSM for VE requests VM snapshot creation at the beginning of a backup and snapshot removal at backup completion. No monitoring is done to ensure the snapshot has been remo...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    About Alarms

    The client's filesystem space is 93% used gpfs sent an alarm pool-data_high_error through gui-snmp trip on October 20, which was notified to the client in time through the client's alarm platform, but the current administrator did not deal with it...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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