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Add ability to logically group multiple storage pool as 'Storage Groups'

Currently, all housekeeping jobs are done on a per storage pool basis. e.g.PARALLELmigrate stg pool1 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool2 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool3 lo=0 wait=yesSERIAL PARALLELreclaim stg pool1 thr=50 wait=yesreclaim stg pool2 thr=5...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Hard Link backup and restore on AIX

Hard link can not restore on a very specific situation.While the backup or restore the hard link in different time, the hard link will lose.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

FCM Win: Links to the VSS HW Provider Websites are out of date

The configuration wizard in the MMC prints a warning if no VSS Hardware Provider is installed. If you click on this Warning, then a list with links to websites appear where it is possible to download the VSS HW Provider. The problem: The links in ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

FCM Win: Enhance support in clustered environments

The current configuration wizard in the MMC for the configuration of MSSQL, Exchange and NTFS volumes does not do any consideration if the application is running in a cluster. - FCM config wizard should configure the attributes: VSSALTSTAGINGDIR a...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM Win: Hint for possible outdated versions of BA and TDP Client

FCM installs the BA Client and the TDPs under the covers which are packaged within the FCM installation package. These versions can be outdated. The MMC config wizard should print a hint at a certain point in time that the BA and TDP version might...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add support to api calls for not following symlinks

It would be useful if the GPFS api commands that accept a filesystem path as an argument could support an optional flag such that if the final component of the path is a symbolic link the link is not followed. The goal is to be able to perform an ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Azure support included as a Container Pool for Spectrum

We would like to have the ability to connect to Microsoft Azure for storage of our backups, or potentially to run our entire TSM environment in. Current disks available in Azure are too small to be used for storage pools, so would require access t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Display Smart Drive Rebuild Progress to Customer

IRS (U.S. Federal government) wishes to have the status of a Smart Drive Rebuild reflected in the log so that they can tell when the DS8000 starts it and when it finishes. It must be distinguished from a regular drive rebuild (RAID 5, 6, or 10).
over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Allow the use of cloud container pool as replication source

At present, cloud container pools can be used as a replication target but not replication source. This is an issue as it means if the replication source server is destroyed or becomes unavailable, it is not possible to replicate the data back to a...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Leverage Cloud container pool directory as restore cache

SP 7.1.6 introduced the concept of using local storage as a fast ingest cache in a cloud container pool. I propose that the same or similar cache is used to mask the low per-stream object performance.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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