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    Exclude a Linux disk from TSM for VE backup

    On Linux virtual machines, exclude disks from TSM/VE backups by their scsi number (e.g. scsi0, scsi1). TSM/VE can query Virtual Center, so it should know everything from that about each virtual machine and its disk(s).
    almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    prioritize free space balancing in container storage pool directories more efficiently

    For example: rather than filling some directories up to 100% while leaving others at 40%, have all directories at 60%Currently experiencing an ongoing issue for over 1 year where directories are maxing out at 100% full because it fills them up wit...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale DMAPI Locking issues

    mmap calls are allowed against files where we have acquired DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE, as long as the handle used for mmap was opened before the exclusive right was acquired. Acquiring DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE access on a file with current active mmaps succeed...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Replication: enable TCP Window Scaling

    Based on information in the PMR and simulations it appears that the replication is using a fixed TCP Window size. Please consider enabling TCP Window Scaling to allow bigger transfers speeds.
    about 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Support for mmrquotad to forward quota information from a remote AFM filesystem

    When using a solution based on AFM to share a GPFS cluster among different sites, the AFM caches are the ones exposed (e.g. mounted by NFS) to servers on the local sites. The available version of mmrquotad daemon (which dates from 2010) is able to...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale Config Changes in GUI

    Provide the ability for the Spectrum Scale GUI to show and make changes to the GPFS config parameters and provide recommendations to nodes and nodeclasses in the GUI. A tuning page would check the configuration of nodes and nodeclasses and allow f...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Better vendor-independent monitoring

    Currently SMI-S is the only supported vendor-neutral API. We have 5 vendors in our storage environment. The SNIA Swordfish API is not currently implemented by either vendor, with only timid hints at future implementations. We need to have professi...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    Provie a button or tab that exposes API calls that would have resulted in the previous GUI activity.

    The command line actions used are shown when a GUI action is completed, but this does not always map to a specific API call or sequence of API calls. It would be helpful for those trying to move to automated workflows to see what the API call woul...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    GM needs Ubuntu supported for the Spectrum Scale HSM Client asap

    Customer has purchased 130PB SP License and needs to run Ubuntu for the Protect Server and HSM Client
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    vdisk mirror is out of sync

    When a vdisk mirror is out of sync, the CLI currently does not exhibit a field to display precisely which copy of the vdisk mirror is in use. The active copy is implied when the copy is sync=true and primary=yes or when the sync=no and primary=no....
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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