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SP for VMware multiple proxies in web client

In some SP for VMware environments using just one proxy node may not be optimal or even possible.The SP for VMware Vsphere Web client integration must be able to handle multiple proxy node configs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Issue an alert for less physical capacity

This idea is related to SCSI-I-1160. "Auto stop of Write operation against oops" may be too difficult, so I'll submit another idea. The customer encountered oops (Out of Physical Space) on FlashSystem 900 AE3 under V7000. The customer request...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

GUI role for user with permissions to only manage Quota on Spectrum Scale

We have several divisions who would need to manage their own quota on Spectrum Scale. According to the IBM DEV Team and Lab Services, users with one of the following roles should have access to the filesets/quotas: securityadmin admin protocoladmi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

INCLUDE.VMDISK improvement

Our policy should be to make an image of only the OS-disk of VM VMWare, with TSM for VE . Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI(0:0) is located on “hard ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Allow specification of CN in LDAP authentication for TS4300 login

Currently when configuring LDAP authentication on TS4300 the user CN is fixed cn=xxxxx.Modern authentication servers use different common names than "CN" - like "UID", ... Please add ability to specify which User CN is being used for LDAP connecti...
over 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

TSM for VE - aplication awareness for Oracle DB and Sybase DB as already exists with 7.1.3 for Exchange and Microsoft SQL

System: TSM for VE - Oracle and Sybase DBsActor: Tivoli Storage AVP client needing support for Oracle and Sybase DBs on TSM for VE TSM for VE currently provides aplication awareness and consistency for Microsof Exchange and SQL - this is required ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Ignore small differnces in tape formats when selecting tapes for write

Tape selection criteria were modified in v1.3.3.0 to improve tape utilization: P1: The tape that is currently mounted in the selected drive.P2: Tapes with the least amount of capacity.P3: Barcode order: If there are multiple tapes that have the sa...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

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