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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    Improvment for FICON Adapter error corretion process.

    The customer requested improvement for FICON Adapter error correction process when the link status goes to unstable. Please refer to the case, TS010589231. The support team said, "If customer insists to change an unstable fscsi path to disable, Yo...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Provide historical n/w metrics in TS7700 historical view

    We experienced recent performance issues in our VTS environment and were having problems isolating the issue. It turned out to be WAN saturation so our 'sync across the WAN' workload was the only ones being slowed down. However, we only came to th...
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Enhancements to TS7700 VESHSTATS statistics

    Enhancements in next VEHSTATS reports:H21ADPSU Add information about how many FICON channels are working and the nominal transfer speed (4GB, 8GB, ...) on every cluster.H33GRID Add information about how many gridlinks are working and the nominal t...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    TS7700 - Validate export media

    Validation of data (logical volume) in the physical media.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 - Customer request 3rd or 4th level power redundancy within the frame - critical outage occurred because building power maintenance left the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. Without addtional redundancy, the box came down.

    Critical outage occurred. Building power maintenance being performed turning off one power leg leaving the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. The box ultimately came down, having a 3rd of 4th PDU would've allowed this frame to stay pow...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Enhancement Grid control function to fence a cluster automatically when the grid network were unstable.

    When the grid network was unstable Hydra Domain Manager on each cluster could be also unstable and cause to wait for logical volume mounting. If the network disconnected completely, the status of the cluster(s) could be changed into "not operation...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 9 Not under consideration

    Support for more than 16 tape drives

    Michael at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to add more than 16 tape drives to TS7700 in future.
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

    As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    TS7700 active data in client interface

    Need an easy way for the client to identify the amount of 'active data' maintained in a TS7700 cluster. Today this metric can only be obtained via BVIR/VEHSTATS and this creates a huge overhead if not implemented to get this metric. It would be mu...
    over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Not under consideration

    Request the ability to read and write C07 style tapes behind the TS7770 including previously written C07 tapes.

    CTBC Bank currently use three TS7740 with GRID connection, we are proposing three TS7770 to replace them.Since CTBC did implement backup 3-2-1 policy. After daily backup jobs they did submit other backup jobs to physical copy those that need to be...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

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