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Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

CSM Server restart & ESSNI restart confirmation in CSM

Following a CSM Server restart, or ESSNI restart through the hardware management console, there should be an indication/event in the logs that that happened. Currently, there is no way to verify within CSM, that a restart of either of these compon...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
about 22 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Process DB snapshot volumes with DRM

Prior to SP 8.1.25, the SP sever disaster recovery manager (DRM) would process DB snapshot backup volumes. Beginning in 8.1.25 (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT47560), DB snapshot volumes are ignored by DRM which can make them invisib...
about 23 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

checkMK . FlashSystem Plugin update

Some of our customers use Checkmk as their monitoring tool instead of IBM Storage Insights. To ensure compatibility and optimal performance, it would be beneficial to update the current plugin to support the latest IBM Flash System Family.
2 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Submitted

Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
10 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Non-disruptive migrate between storage classes

Need the ability to non-disruptively (or minimally disruptive) migrate data between storage classes. Needs to be fully automated with the user simply selecting the source PV and target storage class. Use Cases: Replace storage provider such as exi...
3 days ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

FlashSystem add button to export data from UI

Should be added button allowing the contents to be downloaded into a CSV file, starting from volumes from UI.
about 1 hour ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

extend mmapplypolicy --scope

I have a filesystem with >1300 independent filesets and ~540 million files. Running mapplypolicy with --scope filesystem takes a long time because all inodes need to be scanned. For some mmapplypolicy runs I only need to process one fileset so ...
about 2 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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