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EasyTier pool - import of image mode with tier level designation

when migrating client environments in a newly deployed, EasyTier enabled environments, space restraints make an import of the existing client data impossible. a typical space proportion would be 10% flash, 30% enterprise and 60% nearline. When imp...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Change FMM0654E to warning or information

In FCM for VMware, a backup schedule fails with FMM0654E if a VM is not part of a datastore any more compared to a previous backups. This usually happens when a VM is being moved through vMotion. vMotion is a very frequent use case used in nearly ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Import existing hardware copy services relationships directly by CSM

Customer is using DSCLI to manage Copy Services relationships and now they want to migrate the existing CS relationships to CSM, but customer have a lot of DS8Ks and CS relationships, it's not easy and time consuming to do it manually, we also tri...
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Image encryption

By not allowing a image backup to be encrypted a potential security breach may arise. The particular situation is that a few files in a filesystem are encrypted. A image backup will negate that as it stores all files/blocks and all files will be r...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Notification of events related to the temperature of SVC cluster nodes in the Storage Management (GUI).

We need to view on the Storage Management or a event log, the events related with the temperature threshold of the SVC nodes.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Snaps - customer related info

SVC Snaps contains data such as IP , host names .customer request to remove the sensitive data from snaps
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Create empty nodeclass

We need to create nodeclasses before we have nodes available to assign to the node class. This will allow us to set GPFS configuration for the nodeclass through our configuration management scripts and help ensure we have standardized configuratio...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support

FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support Customer thinks about integrating GPFS as VMware storage layer. Additionally, FlashCopy Manager for VMware should be used to backup / recover the environemnt. Today, GPFS is only supported for FCM for UN...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Multi-factor authentication support for shibboleth identity providers

Johns Hopkins uses shibboleth identity providers as SSO and MFA, they would like to have this work with the SVCs and Flashsystems (FS9150, FS7300s)
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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