IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Supporting half-populated R760 nodes in CD mode (concentrated dispersal mode)

    All generations of IBM COS hardware supported nodes with 12 disks in CD mode. We sold quite a few and when we need to replace them with newer generations (customers: Porsche Informatik, KSG, ...) we would need to have a solution similar to the exi...
    7 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Under review

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot should recognize AIX LVM mirror setup after restore

    The customer operates multiple IBM Db2 databases on the AIX platform using LVM mirrored volumes.For performance reasons, specific LV to hdisk mappings are configured inside of the volume groups.Snapshot backups are created by IBM Spectrum Protect ...
    over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum CDM Deployment on MS Hyper-V Virtualization

    We're working with LULU for their SAP HANA requirement and proposing Spectrum CDM to fulfill their App/DB consistent snapshots for the mentioned retention period here Every 2 hours snapshot for Prod Infra with 7 days retention (12x7= 82 flashcopie...
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

    Storage Protect Storage Agent should report all issue to the Storage Protect server activitiy log

    We run into a LANfree backup issue. Diagnosing the issue took a long time because the STA was not reporting the drive failures into the SP server activity log. Environment: SP AIX library manager (LM) server 8.1.21.0, SP server name LIBMGR. SP AIX...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Submitted

    Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

    Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
    over 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 3 Under review

    I would like VGS to be added to SPS

    Goodday As part of our Oracle in a SAP environment landscape we do bi-weekly refreshes of PROD onto a QA system. We also get ad-hoc requests for other clones as well as clones for Projects that means we need to keep a snapshot around for 6-12 mont...
    over 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    S3 to Tape

    Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
    almost 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot - Support with HyperSwap Volumes

    Hi Team I have a customer who is looking for support for FlashCopy Manager (Spectrum Protect Snapshot) with HyperSwap volumes. From the link below I see that it is not currently supported:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21455924 T...
    almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Add TS1160 support to V7 Storage Agent

    Platin/PlatiniumCustomer VW has more than 200 physical HP/UX and SUN Solaris server, running several applications, including Oracle, some of them larger than 100 TB. All these server are using TSM TDP with LAN free backup. VW purchased the TS4500 ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Not under consideration

    Support TSM Storage Agent to be used in virtual machines for "Serverfree" backup to shared disk

    IBM GPFS is a supported file system for performing "server free" backups to shared disks (similar to LANfree backups, which are going from a TSM client system with TSM for SAN directly to a tape). At the moment, this method (Server free backup to ...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

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