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Provide AWS image for SPP server

It is currently not possible to deploy the SPP server in AWS. The SPP vSnap can be deployed in AWS, but this require an on-prem SPP server (or a SPP server deployed in VMware Cloud on AWS). An AWS specific SPP AMI image is required.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Tool to view EasyTier Metrics in SVC UI

Problem description: Difficult to determine EasyTier consumption of LUNs, MDISKSCurrent workaround: Run STAT tool on dpaheat files downloaded from Storwize; dump to folder and view local HTML doc. This process is very clunky and difficult to map a...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Snapdiff backup support for SP 8.1.4.1 Windows client and OnTap 9.3P2

We currently use Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 client to do SnapDiff backup of OnTap 8.3.2P7 file shares. We would like to be able to do the same using Spectrum Protect 8.1.4.x doing SnapDiff backups of OnTap 9.3P2 file shares. This functionality is crit...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Unexpected Very High bandwidth utilization with large block size (16M) on GPFS File system

Unexpected Very High bandwidth utilization with large block size (16M) on File system . When I look at the performance graph , bandwidth used is in 30-50 GBps when user runs a app/job against 16MB block size file system. When same app/job is run a...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Command to start first Global Copy and switch to MM after 99% of completetion

We have a problem after starting H1-H2 (Metro mirror). At the beginning of start H1-H2 dasd are copied with a good velocity. At the end when DS8K had few data to copy, the time to do this remaining job tooks a very very long time. On our configura...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Unmounting Qtrees

In all pods that perform a scan or perform scans (connmgr pods, our pods that perfom deep inspection scans,.....) a NFS is mounted under nfs/scanner we already have a latency of 1 or 2 secs with only 25 Qtrees being mounted there. We expect having...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

ZFS Support for Spectrum Protect Server on Linux x86_64

Having support for ZFS filesystem on Linux x86_64 is a must. ZFS filesystem is a strong and reliable filesystem that exists for years in Solaris world.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage as container storage pool.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

FS9150/9200 Storage units do not identify I/O ports when plugged into a switch, no symbolic name or RNID data

Currently the only way to identify an I/O port on a FS9150 or FS9200 is by WWPN only, and there are multiple logins possible per port. This makes the zoning of these a much more arduous task than it has to be. An IBM CHPID for example provides bot...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TIVsm-WEBGUI REST API documentation

Having installed and configured TIVsm-WEBGUI package the REST API is visable an useable. But no documentation exists.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

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