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Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL 2012 in Windows 2016

We have 2 Windows Server 2016 with both SQL 2012 and SQL 2016 instances.We need a TDP client version compatible with these three components, so we can backup all Databases in both SQL versions.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Non-SSL adhoc node restoration not possible to initiate

Non-SSL Node adhoc restoration not possible configured to IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.3 We have active directory authentication enabled for our spectrum protect admin session which requires SSL. But all of our nodes are still running in Non-SS...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Attach an existing directory to a fileset

Was discussing root admin with ibm dev Germany and realized that some commands seem never to have finished development. You have two commands one to create a fileset and another to link it to a directory. But the link one requires the directory to...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

SVC Role based authentication

Current users in SVC generally have root level access to all pools and LUNs. Would like to add additional roles such as monitor-level and roles restricted to certain disk pools.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale and Flashcopy integration to migrate data (files) from one cluster to another cluster.

Dear, We have a customer who need to copy files from the production environment to the developement environment to offer to the developers the possibility to work with real datas. It is possible to used Flashcopied LVM volumes from one simple serv...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Fileset Cloning or read-write snapshots

I have a microservices application running on Spectrum Scale 5.x which is looking to weekly and monthly create a copy of the production filesets that may be used for a call in support testing environment as well as an environment for upgrade and b...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

OpCenter NAS Filesystems

Should be able to see NAS/NDMP filespaces as a column in Operation Center, and track last backup date. Expectation:Operation Center -> Clients -> NAS Filesystems* Just like Virtual Machines expands out the entities and filespaces for each VM...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Windows CSVFS

Support for Windows CSVFS (introduced in Windows 2008-R2).In windows 2012 Microsoft drastically improved the usage cases for Windows CSV where you can use Scale-Out fileservers in a active-active windows failover cluster configuration which give t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Bulk adding tags to files via REST API without a policy

We use a SQL select query to fetch files from the Spectrum Discover metaocean table and let a script work on these files. The script produces a JSON file with the fkey of every file and a JSON dictionary with tags that we want to add. Since we're ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration