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SCSI Unmap at thin SVC volumes: recalculate after Unmap operation the reported value of actual written capacity

If SCSI Unmap operations are executed at SVC thin provisioned volumes, then the SVC GUI reflects the related physical allocation reduction on a consistent way (please see column “Usable Capacity” in the “Pools” view of the SVC GUI). But the data v...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Change SPP requirements for WinRM for AllowUnencrypt due to security issues

Currently ISPP requirements for Windows (SQL/Exchange/Windows File Indexing) say to set AllowUnencrypted to true :winrm s winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}and"Both servers must have a Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service that is...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Planned for future release

vsnap storage migration from EOS/EOL Backend storage to new storage on same vsnap

We have no approved solution to migrate the attached LUNs on a vsnap server to new LUNs on same vsnap server. We need that if backend storage is going EOL/EOS. Currently there is only one solution and this is to create new vsnap server with new LU...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Increase number of extents per cluster

Currently a system with extent size of 1 GiB does only support a managed capacity of 4 PiB. We need more scalability without using a larger extent size, e.g. managed capacity of 8 PiB with an extent size of 1 GiB.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

We would like to store all our archive data on a S3 AWS cold tier target.

We have a use case in our environment for sending our archive data to a cloud container pool that would exist on the Spectra Logic BlackPearl device that supports AWS cold tier functionality. With an S3 cold tier cloud container option we would no...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Storage Scale support only Rsyslog for log monitoring instead of syslog-NG

Storage Scale supports only Rsyslog for log management, but has several security risks. The better solution would be support for syslog-NG
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to Copy or Tier Storage pool data of File Device class type to S3 compatible COS bucket with Retention Lock set

As we know it is difficult for Spectrum Protect to manage dedup extents when stored or tiered to a cloud container storage pool and is a major development work, IBM developers may think of introducing this functionality which may be quicker and ea...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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 ...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Improve the error Prone Default Settings for Data Movers in TDP-VE

We recently upgraded to TDP-VE for VMware v8.1.23 and when adding a new data mover over the WebGUI provides the User with default settings to add to the local .opt file. Under Windows this cause an issue with the logfile location. Below are the se...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

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