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    Monitoring the number of I/Os prevented by Throttle for a vdisk.

    This RFE is to have a monitoring / statistics capability of throttled volumes, to see how many I/Os exceeded the configured limit. This is useful for clients to adjust the throttle when too many I/Os are being "paced". Competition (HP storages) al...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

    According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support of X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] in SP Object Agent

    We backup up native Kubernetes workload with native Velero to SP Object Agent. Since Velero Version 1.13 the backup to SP Object Agent is not working anymore. Velero 1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Need support of Power 8/9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Client

    Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

    A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Adding multipath support for FC backup

    One of our customers has Cohesity cluster (12 nodes - Dell PowerEdge 760XL). Each server has 1 HBA (32Gb) with 2 ports and it`s connected to 2 Cisco switches (according to Cohesity recommendations). The problem is all my 12 nodes working through 1...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    change the default data collection behavior of gpfs.snap utility

    the default behavior of gpfs.snap is set to collect afm recovery data to include in the snap archive uploaded to IBM, Please create a switch in the gpfs. snap utililty to give the ability to exclude this afm data as this is financial data that may...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    TS7700 (TSSC) - Simplify Certificate Management - accept .pfx or .p12 certificate format

    As the TSSC does not support to generate a certificate on the machine itself and only create a sign request. I need to order (from a CA) a certificate that holds the private and public key in a .p12 or .pfx format. However, to upload I have to man...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 (TSSC) - simple deletion of all default certificates

    TSSC shall offer the option to delete all default certificates with a single click and allow to delete all expired certificates with a single click as well.
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 (TSSC) - Certificates - allow selection of multiple entries

    Certificate management shall switch from 'radio' button to 'check-box' to allow multiple entries to be deleted with a single click. Currently I have to select a single entry, click delete, select the next one, click delete and so on. If check boxe...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

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