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    add SVC log message when volume mirror copies run out-of-sync

    Please add an informational log message to SVC when volume copies 0 and 1 get out-of-sync. Despite the two policies that can be set with the 'mirrorwritepriority' option it would be very helpful to notice problems in the back-end when volume copie...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

    Allow dynamic creation/modification of a DRS recovery profile

    Let's imagine that the customer is having a changing environment that requires frequent update of its recovery profile, having a way to create,update,modify,delete recovery profile or its content would be helpful. The client , would then be able t...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    No direct option for secondary copy to cloud and no immutable copy feature

    Spectrum Protect Integrating with the cloud for a secondary copy streamlines backups, eliminating the need for an another on-premises backup server. This approach offers cost efficiency, scalability, remote accessibility, redundancy, automated man...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add SP Server logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX

    Currently, logging to SYSLOG is only available on Linux. To properly integrate SP into SIEM/QRadar, it is essential to have logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX, too.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

    Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    SPP Allow Multiple IBM COS Accessors or Load Balancer for Offload to On-Prem IBM COS

    Customer needs the ability to configure the "Copy" portion of their SLA Policy to allow either a load balancer or multiple endpoints to be configured.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Node replication based on managementclass or storagepool

    Currently node replication can only be issued on a node/filespace basis and backup/archive data. A big global bank has the requirement to replicate all data cross country which are older than 5 years. The data can't be distinguished by filespace o...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    SPP Container Backup Support for multiple storage classes

    Container backup support at the moment only supports container native storage class, we would like to add more storage classes to be supported with one solution.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    IBM SV data change rate integrated report

    IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

    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 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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