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    vSnap – zfs enhancements

    vSnaps of SPP are build with zfs. zfs provides management capabilities like enlarging virtual disks, moving data from one virtual disk to another, .... standard LVM stuff vSnap does not support. The only mechanism vSnap support is "add virtual dis...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Remote Pair Flashcopy for GM (Global Mirror)

    This functionality is currently our highest priority for upcoming microcode enhancements. We are awaiting this capability to enable DB2 image copies—and more broadly, any FlashCopy operations—without negatively impacting our Global Mirror (GM) Rec...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Protocols - S3: REST API for mms3 commands

    Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Add quota logging capability to keep overall quota accounting consistent

    For performance, nowadays, most of quota information is stored and updated in memory. Then, it will be synced back to disk in an asynchronous way later. However, there isn't a recovery mechanism for GPFS quota in abnormal situations. These can mak...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Safeguarded Copy function for latest FlashSystem 5000 products.

    With the introduction of Safeguarded Copy Function, it was decided that a FlashSystem 5100 or greater is required to support this new functionality. Since many Flashsystem were sold to Small and Medium businesses or institutions, we are wondering ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    SI Data Collector in Windows should not relay on WMIC due to deprecation

    The Windows data collector service relies on the WMIC command which has been deprecated since 2016 and it is recommended to replace its use with powershell functions. On newer Windows versions (eg 11 and 2025), WMIC is not installed by default, an...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

    The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

    Global Search of Storage Protect Servers from DRS

    Add as a capability in DRS for any connected Storage Protect server.
    2 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    With the introduction of Fusion Access for SAN, particularly with the Fusion Advanced for Virtualization licenses—which enable the creation of virtual machines—and considering VMware’s attack strategy, we understand that VMware delivers significant added value when customers deploy VMware ESX HA clusters in active/active mode using IBM FlashSystem with active/active Hyperswap storage. In this context, we would like to know if Red Hat OVE with a stretched cluster could achieve something similar using IBM FlashSystem in active/active Hyperswap mode.

    With the introduction of Fusion Access for SAN, particularly with the Fusion Advanced for Virtualization licenses—which enable the creation of virtual machines—and considering VMware’s attack strategy, we understand that VMware delivers significan...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    File list limited for 1000 lines using restore node commnad

    Hi team, we are using restore node NODE_NAME /FS FILELIST=FILE:/list_files_in_HEX.txt nametype=HEXadecimal. We are restoring data from NAS node. Customer is using France Diacritics in DIR and File names which impact filler on NAS side. Filler is u...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

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