IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Policy based purge of defunct nodes and data

Today, if you need to purge a node from the environment because it has been retired or no longer needed, one waits for the data t age through its retention policy, then delete fi (of any active data remaining) and then remove node. This process is...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

SVC to FS9200 NDVM (Non-Disruptive Volume Move)

At GTS, we have a strategy to deploy FS9200s in their respective islands. We are not deploying FS9200s with front-ended SVCs. The SVC instances exist in tens of thousands in the field. Most of the times the migration requires outage for a server d...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add Cluster Definition to SVC for grouping hosts and managing SCSI ID

Ability to create a 'cluster' of hosts in SVC and map a lun to the cluster. SVC would then manage SCSI IDs for all the hosts defined for the 'cluster'.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Enhance Installer Toolkit to support update keberized hdfs-scale cluster

We use scale 5.1.3.0 to update our scale hdfs-transparency cluster to update this Version from 5.1.2.2. During the ./spectrumscale upgrade precheck we see a error:Both namenodes are in stand by state, but the haaadmin cmd -getAllServiceState list ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Copy Services Manager Needs a 'run once' scheduling option

CSM v6.2.8 currently provides the following scheduling options:1. Running a task at an interval of 0.5-144 hoursor 2. Running a task at a set time on any number of days each weekor3. No Schedule I wish to setup a task, pick a 4th option 'run once'...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Client Encryption with IBM Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Protect backup encryption using include.Encrypt for Spectrum Scale client is not working due to unrecognized format "Include Encrypt". Error:mmbackup does not recognize this include rule format: Include Encrypt. The tsbackup33 perl script...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

SFP Tx/Rx values at SpecV/Storwize UI

For each Port in an SpecV or Backend Storage System like FS or Storwize it schould be visible which Tx/Rx Values the SFP has. At the moment these values are only visible for the IBM support and it takes a while to determine this as a source for an...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SKLM to Tape Library to use SSL(TLSv1.2) same as TS3200&TS4300

SKLM to Tape Library to use SSL(TLSv1.2) same as TS3200&TS4300. Please add support for SSL for SKLM to Library communications
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Delivered

IBM TS7700 should allow reinitialization of tapes

We have a large number of TS7700's spread across multiple data centers. Many of these have physical tape drives behind them. There are times where we need to move physical volumes between these VTS's and relabel them to a different volser range. W...
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

Display/edit Storage pool property

Currently the new SVC GUI doesn't offer any way to display or edit the pool properties. We would like to have the ability to change some of the pools attributes via the new GUI. The following attributes should be included:- Easy Tier - Capacity wa...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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