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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

add unmap enable/disable option to gui

Default for flashsystem is host unmap off, and this feature is invisible to client until they hit 80% capacity or oos an support advise to enable it. We also want to keep clients in the gui, so it might be worth adding this option to the GUI.
21 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

fixcentral communications - 8.7.0.10

Hi Support, Please could you Post in RED/BOLD informing customers to not install, previous downloaded images. With the recent release of v8.7.0.10 and withdrawal from download site. we have flashsystem 5200 and flashsystem 5300. I downloaded v8.7....
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

make the ba-client scan a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads

question: when will the ba-client be able to search through a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads? this feature is standard among most of ba-clients competitors and customers are asking for this frequently.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Submitted

HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion Planned for future release
210 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

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

Fusion HCI with SAN HBAs for Fusion Access

Fusion Access enables customers to use their existing SAN Block-Storage on OpenShift with our gpfs filesystem, which has significant advantages over block based CSI drivers!Unfortunately, this is only supported on Fusion SDS, as Fusion HCI does no...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Query virt. Volume Inventory (Sizes)

Hello, The TS7700 Virtual Tape System tracks the space used by each logical volume containing data. However, the Web GUI currently does not provide a way to query this information in bulk (e.g., through the Search Logical Volume panel: TS77-I-108)...
7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

More detailed error messages for SP-VE GUI interface

When the VMware SSL cert is changed, SP-VE does not show any specific errors other than a generic network connection error. More detailed errors would be beneficial to SP customers.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

CDM - VMware backup job - Whole datastore selected - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.

Possibility to scan whole datastore - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.
19 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Policy-based Quality of Service / Throttles

Every vdisk out of a specific ressource (pool/childpool/host/cluster/vdisk-name) should get automatically a throttle per pre-defined policy.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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