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Storage Scale performance is extremely sensitive to network and backend latency, there must be a mechanism to monitor those critical KPI

It would help both system administrator and IBM Support to be able to quickly identify the key issue and be able to isolate the bottleneck to address critical performance issues.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

RegionalDR support for External Ceph

For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is a good fit, rbd-mirror needs to support StorageClass ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd rather than the usual internal StorageClass ocs-storagecluster-ceph-rbd.
8 months ago in Storage Fusion Not under consideration

Need for support the combination of AIX 7.2 TL5SP4 and DSCLI in a Japanese language environment.

After updating AIX7.2 TL1SP2 to AIX7.2 TL5SP4, DSCLI doesn't display Japanese characters (Shift JIS, IBM-943) correctly. Support personnel explain that it is known as a limitation of S-JIS and advised to use English or UTF-8 instead of S-JIS. Howe...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Fusion Data Foundation as a Service on ROSA

There are many OpenShift use cases on ROSA. If we can provide Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as a Service on ROSA, that will be useful solution for those cloud users. Such a cloud user usually don't want to install Software by themselves, they basic...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

implement an "auto" setting for volume mirror sync rate

currently the volume mirror sync rate can only be set to a fixed value. while it's great to have this real-time setting, it would be even more helpful to also have an "auto" setting for it to have the system decide at which rate it can sync/format...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Increase consistency group 512 volume maximum to at least 2048

Current IBMi client has 498 volumes running on FS9500. Existing DS8K systems each have over 1,500 volume, preventing them from using more FlashSystems. Minimum # of volumes would need to be 2,048 but more would account for future growth.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

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