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    mmrestorefs into REST API.

    The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

    Tunable options to reduce failover time of ESS when one of the IO servers fails

    In 1H 2020, Korea team has made significant growth in ESS business. However it is noteworthy that business of our competitors have grown together. This is the evidence that market for fie storage is growing. Therefore it is strategically important...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

    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

    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

    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

    Spectrum Scale / ESS soft lockup issue

    I need help on this requirements for the system using Power9 AC922 servers and ESS 3000 storages. The customer has faced soft lockup issues with their applications running on AC922 which Spectrum Scale client runs on as well. They are definitely t...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

    Increase REST API max requests per second limit

    The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Submitted

    SED support using TPM on ESS3500

    We are requesting the addition of "SED support for TPM" to be included on the ESS3500 platform. This will provide the necessary encryption and simplify and streamline the installation and maintenance of the combined cluster including the ESS3500/S...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    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

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