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Populate user friendly naming convention & protocol on notification - GUI enhancements

Hello IBM Team, We came across the notification which shows the "Ethernet port failure" but in details sections the Event ID Text has "Fewer ethernet ports operational" but its not populating the right naming convention & right protocol type t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

start all available NSDs after reboot or with "mmchdisk start -a"

"mmchdisk FS start -a" fails if one or more NSDs of a file system is not available (e.g. did not spin up). This is very odd. Our expectation is, that all available NSDs are started, and only the unavailable devices stay down. Actually, all NSDs of...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Search option in TsmVmwareUI

When dealing with large number of VMs, finding a VM for restore/mount operation in the Datacenter list is extremely difficult and equal to finding a needle in a haystack. Search option would improve this interface significantly.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Earthquake kit

Required by regulation authorities, might improve IBM chances win tenders against competitors.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Provide support to Lustre filesystem

The new FSX on Lustre filesystem available in AWS is being utilized to store data which requires ACL access. It would be VERY helpful if Luster was supported by Spectrum Protect so that the backups of the filesystem would retain these permissions.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Auto create replication target volume when establising new metro/global mirror

When creating a new metro or global mirror relationship , allow the option to automatically create the target volume similar to how flashcopy has the option.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Safeguarded Copy checking mechanism

Our client is suggesting the following enhancement: inside SGC code define a checking mechanism to exactly point out the bad sector(s) or block(s) or LUN(s) potentially affected that will be isolated or made invalid and then provide a a valid copy...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Increase StripeWidth when expanding DRAID

Increase the stripe width when expanding a DRAID to maximize the capacity.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Increase SVC Storwize host limit per IO group

We have exhausted the maximum number of hosts definitions per IO group - 512. Many of the hosts in our large enterprise have volumes defined from various IO groups and we have the need to define hosts in more then one IO group. It's critical and e...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Host Path Check Pause

Provide a button to move on from path checks during an SVC upgrade. Have upgrade check to see if hosts even exist on the cluster and if no don't pause for path check.
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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