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Ability to Specify protocol -- rdma/tcp -- along with the subnet/cluster reachability

Consider the following use-case: There are two clusters each with multiple nodes. The intra-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes within the cluster) happens via TCP and inter-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes between clusters) happens v...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Minimize Upgrade time for Flash System canisters

Today upgrade of Flash System controller take around 20 minutes per canister.This means less performance , less ports that are in use , and put the customer in risk , in case the second canister have problem during the upgrade of the first canister.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necess...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

using remote clients as helper nodes for policy scans and processing migration

Usually, IBM recommends to pool all ESS Storage Servers in a so called storage cluster and then connect one or multiple remote client / or so called / compute clusters to the ESS. In fact, thats meanwhile a common best practice cluster topology. O...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP - Option for a Policy with Zero Retention / No Backup

We have several VMs in our environment that we do NOT want to backup. We tag these VMs with #No-Backup. However, there is currently no way in SPP to omit these VMs from the stats or associate them with a ‘No-Backup' Policy with a zero-day retentio...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication Workload

The workload value for the node replication in spectrum protect is based on an estimated value. The complete history of this value is visible when the summary table is filtered for activity='REPL_WORKLOAD'. The last value of repl_workload is also ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Allow multiple or all SQL DBs selection in adhoc backup

Customer is requesting the ability to choose multiple DBs or all DBs for SQL Protection when running an adhoc backup via the SPP UI.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to export support logs out of OperationsCenter GUI

In case of problems with the ISP environment it is needed to open a problem ticket and provide various log files from the ISP server. If the Operations Center is used it should be able to extract the logfiles out of the Operations Center. (e.g. ac...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Support GC-GC cascaded start option in 3 site MT sessions

When using CSM for migration scenarios in 3 site topologies, a typical approach is to migrate via PPRC Failover or HyperSwap from old MGM cascade to a new GC-GC cascade. Today, the new GC-GC cascade requires to use temporary 2 site MM sessions bei...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

VM recovery problem

Hypervisor vmvare.There is a VM with many connected disks, about 50 TB.Only disk 1 is backed up and needs to be restored.When we start recovery of only the first disk, the recovery mechanism checks for free space in the storage not for disk 1, but...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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