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Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
20 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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 ...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Under review

Expedited inode scan / faster disk replacement for descOnly disks with filesystem that have large inode counts

For Scale filesystems with very large inode counts, requesting an improvement to reduce/consolidate the inode scan requirements when replacing the descOnly disks (128M).
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
8 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

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