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IBM Storage Snapshots support for Virtualize, Flash Systems and Storwize in SPP

SPP should be able to benefit from IBM Storage Snapshots (Flash Copy) during backup by using them to minimize the impact of the backup on the system to be backed up and, if necessary, to accelerate the backup process.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Planned for future release

Enable the setting of a VM name on clone and production restores

Enable the ability to set a VM name on clone and production restores and on move into production and clone operations for active clones (test restores)
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

need tape disaster recovery ability for Spectrum Protect Plus

Enable Spectrum Protect to be a disaster recovery target for Spectrum Protect Plus.This would provide tape based disaster recovery of Spectrum Protect Plus.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a state that will prevent the tape from being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range of volsers from the TMC.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Ticket overview in Storage Insights

We would like to have the possibility to view all tickets, open ongoing tickets and closed aswell in the same window. As for now we have no overview to see all tickets but we have to manually open the "Tickets" tab under each system.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

AFM immutable file support

Need to be able to make files immutable in a home fileset for AFM in order to protect data from ransomware, data will be created at the cache site (single-writer) and transferred to the home site using AFM, data are to be retained at the home site...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

IBM SP Protect server support on w2k19

I have to install a new IBM Sectrum protect server.I wish to use the OS Windows 2019 Server but I've seen that IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 is not supported on this version.I really wish to use this version of OS (Windows 2019) is possible to know w...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 7.0 VM

According to the support page, VMware ESX and ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x are supported but not ESXi 7.0. IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platformshttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Support CEPH as S3 target on "cloud storage tier"

IBM is pursuing CEPH as one of the S3 solutions ( additional to IBM COS) We are wondering if we could certify CEPH S3 interface as TS7700 offload target for TS7770C so we have the chance to use IBM COS or CEPH when deploying IBM S3 solutions onprem
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Storage Insights doesn't collect performance data often enough

Storage Insights can collect performance data no more frequently than every minute. Some storage devices, such as Spectrum Virtualize, collect data more frequently than that. Since some performance events take place on the scale of seconds, it is ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release