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    Event notification – Host login and logout from the fabric

    Event notification – Host login and logout from the fabric, currently SARB doesn’t receive any notification from storage subsystems for host login/logout from the fabric. This feature needs to be part of future firmware release as per customer req...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Per-AFM NFS Health Metrics (Mount-Level Visibility)

    Summary: Provide visibility into NFS health per AFM node. Description: There is no granular visibility into which NFS mounts are up or down per AFM node. Impact: Difficult troubleshooting Reduced observability of failures Slower root cause analysi...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhanced Lazy Loading & Prefetch Observability (Cache Metrics)

    Summary: Provide detailed cache efficiency metrics. Description: There is limited visibility into lazy loading and prefetch effectiveness, especially cache hit/miss ratios. Impact: Difficult performance tuning No insight into cache efficiency Subo...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Fileset Quota Exceeded — Inconsistent Read Behavior Across Access Paths

    Summary: Ensure consistent error handling for quota-exceeded reads across POSIX and HDFS access. Description: When a fileset quota is exceeded, read behavior differs depending on the access path: POSIX (GPFS path): Correctly returns "disk quota ...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

    Support Custom NFS and mountd Ports in AFM Configuration

    Summary: Allow AFM to connect to NFS servers using custom ports. Description: AFM currently assumes default NFS and mountd ports, limiting each host to a single NFS instance. This prevents full NIC utilization since multiple NFS instances per host...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    AFM Resiliency Scoped to Export Map Instead of Cluster-Wide

    Summary: Allow AFM failover only among nodes defined within the same export map. Description: Currently, AFM resiliency requires all AFM nodes in a cluster to be configured in the export map for every fileset. This creates an inefficient AFM-to-NF...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Additional parameter for repairvdiskcopy

    Additional parameter "-stoplba lba" for "repairvdiskcopy" command needed: -stoplba lba(Optional) Specifies the last logical block address (LBA) on which to finish the command. The LBA must be specified in hex, with a 0x prefix.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Support reversal of roles of replication servers which have Retention Sets

    If you have retention sets on either a source or target replication server, you cannot reverse the roles of the replication servers; that is, you cannot make the source server the target server and vice versa. If you do so, data in retention sets ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Fusion Backup and Recovery - Restore single files from VM backup

    We would like to implement single file restore for Fusion Backup Restore. Today we are required to restore to a separate namespace and copy files as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion-software/2.8.x?topic=virtualization-ba...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Policy Based Replication - Need a way to monitor how far out of sync destination volumes are from the source volumes for different Volume Groups

    When adding IBM flashsystems to a monitoring tool (we have Zabbix), it can see the Volume Groups made on the flashsystems, but it is not able to get any information that shows how far out of sync the destination volumes are from the source volumes...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

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