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IBM Spectrum Control

Is Spectrum Control available for a cluster installation

We need for Spectrum Control 5.4.6 cluster support for Windows 2019 for an cluster failover event. Currently we are using 2 SC Instances on Windows 2012 Its planned to do a server refresh and we want to know, if SC could be installed in a clustere...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Under review

SVC/Spectrum Control iSCSI monitoring

Client wishes to have the ability to monitor performance of their iSCSI connections on SVC using Spectrum Control as they do today on their FC connections. They feel that the underlying technology is there, but do not understand why they cannot ha...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Planned for future release

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Planned for future release

Spectrum Control Probe Execution Scheduling Customization below 24 hours

The Data Collection Schedule or Probe Scheduling does not go below an "Every Day" or 24 hours. I would like to be able to schedule the probe to execute multiple times through out a 24 hour period. Having the capability to customize the schedule to...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration

REPL for log collection supported by Spectrum Control

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in Spectrum Control would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control Under review

Requesting RHEL9.x support for Spectrum Control

Since you support RHEL7 (which is EoL now) and RHEL8 it would only be logic to also support RHEL9.x (which was released over 2 years ago). As we have tons of servers now migrating directly from RHEL7 to RHEL9 the support for it would be tremendous...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control Functionality already exists

Improve Host reporting in Spectrum Control

Spectrum Control has some ability to report hosts that are making use of resources, such as volumes on a Spectrum Virtualize pool. But this reporting is not complete.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration

Refresh support for HPE 3PAR/StorServ

Update current support for HPE 3PAR (StorServ) to support devices with newer firmware/SMI-S agents
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Planned for future release

Reintroduce Topology View

Reintroduce end-to-end topology view.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Planned for future release

Spectrum Control Storage Consumer report does not work when using DRP on SVC

Storage consumer report can use Capcacity or Allocated Spaces on volumes when generating a report. Allocated space on a volume is not counted when using DRP (Data Reduction Pool) on a storage system and reported as 0. It is not possible to determi...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control Future consideration