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Spectrum protect support for AWS Glacier

we are using Spectrum protect 7.1.7 version to backup data to AWS S3. Our customer wants to move less frequently accessed data to Glacier to reduce cost. The AWS SLP feature can be used to achieve this but the current version of Spectrum protect d...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

mmauth grant should also work for already mounted clusters

mmauth grant ... -a ro requires a remount on the remote side (which is not documented, BTW). This is a problem as the remote cluster may not be controlled by you.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add PowerCLI and/or PowerShell integration to VM backup

Enable and document how a VM admin in VMware or Hyper-V can use PowerCLI og PowerShell to kick of a backup, set tags. Documentation today talks about that you can use PowerCLI to add tags for VM setting, add examples of how this is done. Look at v...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM backup solution for KVM

We are looking for online backup solution for KVM.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

add more function on TSM operation Center

• If is it possible we can setup server group, each user access Ops center, he/she can choose their server group to review and operation, • For sever webpage, is it possible to show both TSM instance name and OS host name, since we have several TS...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Add / create a CLI command in order to remove permanent "inactive" entries from lsfabric

With situations in which client changes zoning, this also includes when they are implementing NPIV from just physical ports (transitional), it is common to have bad manipulation from the multipath driver over the host paths which causes previous p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Improve information in ANR3605E messages

Any ANR3605E message which appears in the server activity log does not indicate which storage agent is the subject of the communication failure. In large LAN-free environments (10s or 100s of storage agents) this can make identifying the source of...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Not under consideration

Add zstd as a compression option

It's great to have lz4 and Z as compression options but it would be nice to additional some additional compression options such as zstd.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Execute failed VM backups within schedule

TSM for VE has been deployed as a replacement for other vendors solutions. It is being developed well but some of the core functionality is lacking, for example the ability to re-run failed backups without having to create new adhoc schedules ever...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Certify the SAS HBA "Adaptec Smart Storage PQI SAS / HP Smart Array P408e-p SR Gen10" for LTFS

Our environment: Server Model: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen10 OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 (Oopta) LTFS Version: ltfssde-2.4.5.1-10503.x86_64 Tape Library Model: IBM TS4300 Product ID: 3575-TL Firmware Version: 1.6.0.0-A00 SAS HBA Model: Adaptec Smar...
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

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