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Add support for exporting remotely mounted GPFS filesystems with ganesha via CES

The CES ganesha nfs server "allows" a remotely mounted GPFS filesystem to be exported, but doing so results in incorrect cache behavior. Ganesha maintains its own inode cache, but cache invalidation doesn't work correctly for remotefs filesystems....
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

FB4W compression and subfile copy enable

Compression and Sub-File Copy features are not working simultaneously in FB4W Client
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

Allow server side encyption on DISK and DirectoryContainer storage pools

TSM server (IBM Spectrum Protect) cannot do server side encryption for storage pools that are not either LTO or cloud-based. We'd like to have an option to enable encryption on DISK or DirectoryContainer based storage pools (knowing that deduplica...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Volume based on/off cache prefetch

Erste Group is building up the new HW and SW infrastructure for corporate DWH system For hot data they are using 8 node SVC (model DH8) cluster and FlashSystem 840 as the SVC back-end Tier0 storage. For the cold data (Tier 1) they are using the sa...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Provide ability to specify mount location for each individual volume. Spectrum Snapshot mount creates FCM_VSS# folders under

A snapshot may contain multiple volumes, so if they are mounted under sub folders, this requires additional configuration steps to make the snapshots available to the application after the mount is completed. The result of these additional steps i...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Provide alternatives to using clear text user credentials in scripts and Windows started tasks when taking snapshots via CLI/

When performing snapshot operations via the Spectrum Snapshot CLI/Cmdlets, appropriate user credentials are required for remote mount commands. Currently, users must include these credentials in clear text when using a scripting solution to automa...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Provide ability to pass mount location for each volume instead of FCM_VSS# folders under specified mount location.

A snapshot may contain multiple volumes, so if they are mounted under sub folders, this requires additional configuration steps to make the snapshots available to the application after the mount is completed. The result of these additional steps i...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Provide alternatives to using clear text user credentials in scripts and Windows started tasks for snapshots via CLI/Cmdlets

When performing snapshot operations via the Spectrum Snapshot CLI/Cmdlets, appropriate user credentials are required for remote mount commands. Currently, users must include these credentials in clear text when using a scripting solution to automa...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Change FlashCopy Mapping naming behaviour with SVC/Storwize Dynamic Target Allocation

FCM 4.1 with SVC/Storwize Dynamic Target Allocation (DTA) will fail when the FlashCopy source vDisk name is very long. The corresponding name for the FlashCopy Mapping will then be too long and FCM DTA will fail.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Fine control for node replication of databases

When database RPO is 24hrs or more, it makes no sense to replicate the database transaction logs (Oracle, MSSQL, DB2). Transaction logs do not deduplicate and therefore accounts for a significant overhead in cross-site replication. It would be goo...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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