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Spectrum Virtualize "IO pause" on node leave and join is entirely too long

When a node leaves or joins a Spectrum Virtualize cluster (SVC, V7K, FS9100, etc), the cluster imposes an "IO pause" on the order of 10 or more seconds. This is unacceptably long, especially in a flash environment.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Install ICS through Customer-Code-Load

This is an enhancement request of Customer-Code-Load of DS8000 R9.3 and later. My understanding is that currently there is no way to choose an ICS through Customer-Code-Load GUI. (If there is a higher level of bundle, some ICSs are selected aut...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Improved LDAP support for Security Administrator users in DS8000

If you want to use the Export/Import LDAP Remote Authentication configuration option, and you have at least one Security Administrator (SA) user defined, when you Import the existing configuration in a new DS8000, the SA user is not imported becau...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Tape replace to skip bad file

RPQ: 672-92701 When Tape state is changed to need_replace and require_replace, customer was told to migrate their data from bad tape to a new tape cartridge. While if there is a damaged file in the replace tape, ”eeadm tape replace” will stop at t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Support migrate and recall REST API in storage archive

RPQ: 672-92700 As we know, in hyperscale tape storage system tape archive node works with customer distributed storage system. The current interface between tape archive and customer distributed storage system is command, it is limited in local OS...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Performance improvements for LTO9 unload

RPQ: 672-95268 Both Tencent and Baidu have requested performance improvements for LTO9 unload. Since LTO9 performs low-tension unload this can be slower than LTO8. However, there is an LTO9 option with the RAO command that will optimize the LTO9 u...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

LWORM immutability

why is it useful? append is still a change, closer to an air gap solution who would benefit? Sheltered Harbor and applications seeking to create immutable copies on tape using LWORM how should it work? A global parm to allow or not allow a tape da...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

eliminate lack of I/O on mmdelsnapshot start

When deletion of bunch of snapshots starts we a lack of I/O for about three minutes.NFS Clients see a huge delay of I/O. Related applications hanging for this time and user connections and run into timeouts (e.g http connections for apps that stor...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Planned for future release

Increase (virtual) DS8000 capacity limits

(virtual) DS8000 capacity is limited to 3652 TiB (approx. 4 PB) with thin provisioning and Small Extents (Thin provisioning and Small Extents is recommended by IBM) 2019 (with) DS8880 we were hit by this limitation. We used some overprovisioning (...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter Ther...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

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