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Migrate data from Spectrum Protect (Existing S3 pools to different Cloud Object Storage)

To migrate data from existing IBM Clever Safe Object Storage bucket to different S3 compatible buckets using Spectrum Protect TSM server.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

The replication vSnap needs to be on a VPN

The issue is not the existence of that replication partner, the issue is the NAT. The following happens: 1. vSnap1 connects to vSnap-VADP host name and requests the IP interfaces to connect to 2. vsnap-vadp check in the list of its network interfa...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP: be able to rename SLA

SPP: Please allow for renaming SLA.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

File Indexing numbers

Need to add option to get current utilization of file indexing numbers as we have limit in SPP
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Report power redundancy failure on a ESS Data Server or ESS Protocol Node

Currently, the GUI neither mmhealth report a power redundancy failure if power cord is unplugged or power is lost at one of the PSUs. The GUI uses ipmitool rvitals as an internal report were PSU appears as ok but PSU fan rpm are reduced. The GUI s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

The customer request Storage Insights to have a Safe Guarded Copy capacity planning tool similar to StorM

The customer would like to use Safe Guarded Copy but wants to understand the capacity requirements using Storage Insights
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Support for GFS2 file systems

Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

select more than 20 nodes (VM's) per vCenter for Backup

In the vCenter plugin extension we can select only 20 VM's. If we select more, we will get an error, that only 20 are possible in one backup. In some cases (failed backups) we need to restart more than 20 VMs from the vCenter GUI.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

tape overwrite function for copy-container storage pools

Please implement a way to overwrite a tape in a container-copy storage pool. In sequential pools you could just use the "move data" command for this and move the data from one tape to another without losing temporary copy coverage or messing with ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

ganesha_stats improvements

It's difficult to troubleshoot client related issues from the CES cluster. Need a command that output a list of the top clients by amount of operations on the shares. It's necessary in case of situations when clients create load that impedes the r...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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