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Storage scale performance statistics for SMB shares

EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to replicate storage fusion backup and restore service protection

When we backup the service protection to an s3 compliant backup location, the service protection cannot be replicated to another s3 compliant backup location say at a DR site. It would be ideal if we can replication the service protection backup t...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Improve performance when retrieving partial tapes by using RAO/oRAO on supported tape drives

IBM Enterprise tape drives (TS1140/3592-E07 onwards) supports Recommended Access Order (RAO). LTO-9 drives supports Open Recommended Acces Order (oRAO). This feature allows a tape drive to advise an application on the optimum retrieval order based...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect prevent massive deletion from client side

In today's world, more than ever we are tracking any kind of destructive operation. Command approval feature recently added prevent the SP admin to do massive data deletion from server side but we are still lacking the same protection mechanism if...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add monitoring of *_free_memory on io groups

Hello, it would be nice to have monitoring of *_free_memory on SVC/FlashSystem. remote_copy_free_memorymirroring_free_memoryflash_copy_free_memory This would help with monitoring of remaining memory left for bitmap copies. Setting up alert policy ...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Provide a replication status in the dashboard to verify vSnap replication is in sync/running etc.

A status view is required to identify if vSnap replication is in sync / running / out-of-sync similar to the replication status view in the Operation Center for Spectrum Protect replication.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TS7770 - Add a description field to the category define area allowing us to name our categories in a GRID.

It allows the engineer to quickly identify in the MI, who the categories belong to when sharing a GRID with multiple sysplex's. The description would be editable.
about 2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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