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Add support for tape media partitioning

With the ever increasing capacity of tape volumes collocation by node wastes more and more space for smaller nodes. Switching to collocation by group is not an option for us as we have thousands of nodes that are not in our direct control so we do...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Search for VM backup status

On a regular basis we are asked 'did my VM backup' or 'how long did my VM backup take'. There is currently no way of searching for his information directly within the SPP GUI, instead job logs have to be downloaded as a CSV and imported into excel...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

add multipath support into vsnap and vadp packages

Few vsnap or vadp are currently operated on hardware, but customers with large environments who want to back up many VMs or databases and store them on SAN volumes or use the SAN transport method. They have to take care of the multipath support ma...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Future consideration

SVC 2145-DH8 Use IMM port for remote access/control

SVC Nodes are commonly installed in multiple Data Centers, not all Data Centers have a support personnel at all times, and in certain circumstances the SVC Nodes require physical access in order to Reboot the Nodes. Currently the IMM Port of the S...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Only restore blocks needed for VM restore

Customer has requested if it would be possible to only recover the needed blocks to restore a VM back to a desired point in time. Customer stated that in previous tools this was the method used and that it reduced the time needed to do a restore. ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup & Restore of NSX network interfaces/Tags using Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for VE

Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments need to include the option ofbackup/restore of VMware NSX virtual networking devices and its Security Tags into the VMare VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infras...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP RESTORE PRODUCTION

Our vmware team found a problem using the production restore method. They saw that just before the final step of the process, SPP makes vcenter delete the original virtual machine so that it could create the new one with the same unique identifier...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSnap needs to be more resilient for out of storage space scenarios

If vSnap storage runs out of space, the underlying zfs filesystem should be resilient enough to stop and restart without inconsistencies once additional storage is added.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CDM - request to not wait for the Flashcopy to complete copying before ending the job in the storage controller

- During restore the FC "volume snap" is currently mounted successfully via CDM- but no access is possible for an application e.g. VMware. - CDM waits for R/W operations until the complete FC is restored. Thus no immediate restore + use with CDM i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SpectrumScale should be able to natively mount at any point in the name space of a filesystem using GPFS client

GPFS/SpectrumScale using the native GPFS client cannot mount at any location in a filesystem in a multi-tenanted environment in any way other than at the root level, exposing the entire filesystem to a client. GPFS should ideally offer the ability...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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