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File System Level virtualization

the customer created different gpfs file systems for different purpose, e.g. file system 1 for data archive of business department A, file system 2 for data archive of business department B, file system 3 for data archive of business department C....
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

SCSI unmap DELL Powerstore in classic pools

Using SVC with different strorage controllers is essential. DELL Powerstore is able to use data reduction. There for it is essential to fully communicate the SCSI unmap from fornt to back end.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

More Groups in Spectrum Scale for AIX

Currently under Spectrum Scale Server for AIX 4.2.x the products supports only 128 AIX Groups but in all other OS much more like Windows and Linux. We Need urgently the support of more Group id's
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Delivered

Enhance SVC to provide virtual FC ports to remove dependancy on multipath driver during upgrades

Need to enhance SVC design to meet stringent customer functional requirement currently not achievable by SVC core design.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

TSM in native P7 compatibility mode

We are purchaseing p720 servers as our TSM servers. We want to be able to use POWER7™ in POWER7™ compatibility mode.​​ Currently if using POWER7™ it needs to be in POWER6™ compatibility mode.​​
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Increase number of compressed volumes in an I/O group to beyond 512

The current limit of 512 compressed volumes per I/O group imposes challenges in the field with customers that want to increase coverage of compression in their environment by increasing the number of compressed volumes that they already use. In ma...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Increase granularity of per-client attributes to per-filesystem (or per-fileset?)

There are several settings in Spectrum Scale which have a per-client scope which could benefit from having per-filesystem scope (or a per-filesystem, per-client scope). Of these, we are primarily interested in flushOnClose becoming more granular (...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Add Time Locks to Flash Copy Sessions to prevent an overwrite of FC data

CSM will add a property to FC sessions that will prevent users from being able to "reflash" the session in x hours (similar to SGC) This option prevents customers from reflashing over the last "good" flash CSM will add a property to FC sessions to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Backup of TSM / Spectrum Protect Directory Container Pools

The new directory container storage pools are unable to perform migrations to other storage pools. This can be "hacked", if you will, by backing up the directory container files themselves to another storage pool that can migrate to tape devices. ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Storwize Family - IP Replication - Required command with advanced options - ping -i , traceroute, telnet

There is a need for the availability of the following commands on the Storwize codes especially for the purpose of configuring/troubleshooting IP based replication. 1. ping command including advanced options- ping -i 2. traceroute command uncludin...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

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