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Three site Async Replication - Spectrum Virtualize

The customer requirement consists of an application that needs to be in a 3-way async replication configuration between their 3 data centers which are outside of Sync distances.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Storage Scale - Need GPFS to support storing or exporting performance data into enterprise-level time series database like InfluxDB or Prometheus

Problem: 1. The "pmcollector" service usually cannot work well when the GPFS cluster has over 100 nodes. As a result, the GUI will not display the performance data normally. And restarting the GUI will not help.2. ZIMON can not process large amoun...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

In local Encryption Context , Customer have no wy to check encryption status. This lead into long run discussion with no ending when need to supply encryption evidence to SecurityAudit Team"

When only have FC5272 using local encryption mgr, for data at rest . VTS admin people cannot supply trustable evidences to Security Team about the encryption status. We raise a case TS015965829 , we were explain, the the VTS MI data encryption tab...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Functionality already exists

VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add monitoring of *_free_memory on io groups

Hello, it would be nice to have monitoring of *_free_memory on SVC/FlashSystem. remote_copy_free_memorymirroring_free_memoryflash_copy_free_memory This would help with monitoring of remaining memory left for bitmap copies. Setting up alert policy ...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

AWS EC2 Snapshot replication and copy

Allow an AWS EC2 snapshot to be ingested by SPP's repository and the ability of creating other copies, using replication and copy/offload features.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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