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Spectrum Protect for Space Management

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Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Space Management (HSM) for ppc (power) Linux

With the evolution of Spectrum Scale (esp. ESS) running on our ppc Hardware on Linux it is required to have this capability to reduce the number of objects to manage (i.e. an extra AIX or x86 system to handle the HSM migration out of ESS or other ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Need a support for data migration using AFM between two Spectrum Scale clusters with migrated data to tape by ISP HSM.

Currently data on a source Spectrum Scale clucster(or ESS) can be migrated to a target cluster using AFM prefetch function.In case that a cluster uses HSM function which migrates data on GPFS to tape storage using ISP for Space Management, AFM pro...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Tape optimization recall termination improvement

The product has several recall types.Tape optimization recall(TOR) is one of them.Now you terminate a TOR, it waits to complete the current recall. It is important to implement a more granular TOR termination technique.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Enable dsmreconcile to run on arbitrary HSM nodes

We are currently developing a large archive solution based on IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management. In the particular setup we make heavy use of the Multiserver functionality of ISP for Space Management for scalability ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

GPFS+TSM+HSM: staging vs. migration priority

What we are looking for is a configuration based parameter what willbasically break out of the "transparency for the user" mode, and notperform any further recalling, period, if|when the file systemoccupancy is above a certain threshold (98%). We ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

Rolling upgrades of space management client.

When upgrading the space management client, event if there are multiple HSM nodes, it is required to disable HSM globally while space management and backup-archive clients and API are removed and reinstalled on all nodes. For clusters with multipl...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Improve HSM logging to contain filenames

Add a further option to HSMLOGEVENTFLAGS to also log the filenames and recallid for transparent recalls. Currently there's only exobjid and handle. Further extend dsmq toa) to produce machine readable outputb) show extobjid and handle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Add virtualmountpoint support for Spectrum Protect for Space Management on Spectrum Scale servers

Please allow Spectrum Protect for Space Management in a Spectrum Scale environment to operate on virtualmountpoints. This means support in the following scenario: 1) A large Spectrum Scale file system is split into multiple smaller filesets. 2) Ea...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

dsmmigundelete command re-create stub files for individual files

When space management migrate file to TSM storage, a stub file created in place of the original file, in some case, user need to recover one or more stub files because it deleted by mistake, and if these file are not protect by B/A client, the onl...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Space Management - file expiration

The current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) has a migfileexpiration option that "Specifies the number of days a copy of a migrated or premigrated file remains in storage after it is modified on your local file system, or deleted from yo...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Not under consideration

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