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Allow exclude vm disks in the TSM4VE GUI (or select/include only particular disks to be backed up for a VM)

We utilise TSM4VE to take backups of the system disk only of virtual servers like SQL. TSM4VE requires manual entries in the dsm.opt file. This is cumbersome and error prone, and having inclusions for disks available in the GUI would make this pro...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

allow VM exclusion via tagging in Spectrum Protect Plus

please add the capability to exclude VMs based upon specific vSphere Tags, in addition to the ability to include via tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Support for snapshot recall in AFM cache

Currently, if a file is evicted from an AFM cache fileset, the snapshot file of the evicted file become zeros. Is there a roadmap to support fetching data from home when reading an evicted snapshot file in AFM cache cluster? This feature would be ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Operations Centre to validate internet access via a proxy

New Feature in Operations center to manage client autodeploy us currently inoperative if the Customer is running a WEB Proxy as the current release 8.1.4 or the OC cannot authenticate itself for web access and hence can't download the required pac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

install mounting brackets for PDU's in Factory for all drive and library frames

The IBM TS4500 (3584) ships mounting bracket PN 45E6651 and Pn 45E6652 ONLY if PDU feature code 1951 is ordered. It is impossible to get these brackets in the field. This is also the perfect place for a customer to install a bulk fiber termination...
over 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

Operations Center: Select multiple (but not all) servers for a report

Currently, you can select either one or all servers for a report. It would be very helpfull if you would be able to select a subset of servers.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

On the Storage Scale Server (SSS) formerly ESS, the "mmlsnsd" command should show the NSD disk primary/secondary server relationship as previously done and does so for Spectrum Scale on SANs and Lenovo DSS.

Having "mmlsnsd" display the NSD disk data path ownership (primary/secondary server relationships) allows customers to balance disk assignments. In addition, Lenovo DSS does this already and customers migrating from Lenovo , like MorganStanley, ha...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Pool level mirroring - Protected Pools

The ability to mirror at the pool layer by creating a pool as a mirror pool to an existing pool (protection pool). Any volume that lands into the PRIMARY pool is automatically mirrored to the secondary protection pool. Removing the volume from the...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SPP restore skip existing files

Would like the ability to do file restores with the option of do not overwrite existing. Currently, if "Overwrite existing Files/Folders" is not checked, restore fails at first existing directory. The functionality should be similar to the Spectru...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

certify with cisco NX-OS 8.4 (2a)

actually the nx-os Version of the cisco MDS 9700 8.4(2a) is not certify with spectrum control .. but this version is not the last .. and we need to have this version certify to able to have some support on it !
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

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