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Add LROC support for Encrypted data

When using Local Read-Only Cache (LROC) functionality with encrypted file system data, the LROC function is bypassed and data is not held locally to increase performance. Data from encrypted file systems should be used with LROC. I should be held ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

TSM for Linux PPC

i understand version 8 will not be supported on LinuxPPC servers
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Delivered

Clustered Data Ontap version 9.0 GA

Unable to Backup our New Cluster running:Current Cluster Version: NetApp Release 9.0: Fri Aug 19 11:04:54 UTC 2016

SVC can be connected to security logging and monitoring system

The requirement is that as audit events are generated; a syslog message is sent into the audit system. We would like the ability to configure multiple syslog destinations for resilience and also have the ability to specify the target port.Applies ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Legal Disclaimer

A customizable legal disclaimer should be configurable at logon
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Diasable Factory Account

It is a requirement to disable the default factory account
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Backup catalog/database to different site

Have the possibility to backup the catalog and SPP database to another site as the SPP server. Example, we backup now everuthing to the primary site. But for disaster recovery it would be nice to have the possibility to backup the catalogs (and SP...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Remove 3-1 core allocation for RTC

Please could you remove the compression allocated to 3 cores and 1 for the system. I have seen that the single core for systems goes to 93% and the compression hovers around 22% and the system is slow. I would suggest having a limiter (Like QoS) t...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Tool to generate clusterdefinition.txt from a running cluster

clusterdefinition.txt is the core of the toolkit that is used not only for install but during the lifecycle of the cluster. Due multiple reasons (HW fail on node that was used to deploy, manual add of nodes, NSD, IPs, ..., many other) the file wou...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Storwize IP replication allow more than one cycle period

Title: Storwize IP replication allow more than one cycle periodTCC Client Owner: Jason Robinson, Tyson FoodsPriority: MediumProblem description: IP replication allows only single cycle periodCurrent workaround: NoneProposed resolution: Allow multi...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered