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Allow SPP catalog restores from COS or SP

Spectrum Protect Plus stores the metadata information in a catalog which can be backed up to a vSnap repository. This information can not be stored on COS or an ISP server. This would end up in non-discoverable information in the event of the whol...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Increase bitmap limit for features in Storwize/Spectrum Virtualize

Particularly in the Storwize family of products, the current ~512MiB of bitmap space is insufficient given the size of storage systems. Even a "small" V7000 system, for instance, may have several PiBs of disk. The default settings perform a volume...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Erase on Scratch

We have been directed to implement the ERASE on Scratch (ALL) setting on our IBM Systems. Testing was done in our Development environment, but users notified us that the elapsed times of jobs that deleted large disk files were significantly longer...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 9 Delivered

Retrule exclude decommission vm filespaces

We make every first sunday a retset over all vm and keep them for 3 month. Simply define an retrule with an generic filter to catch all vm. All VM are under node SUVA_SWWVC62 and the Filter is SUVA_SWWVC62:* When we decommission an vm this vm will...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Support of exceeding 2TB VMDK backup

Each individual VMDK involved in a backup operation cannot exceed2 TB on TSM for VE V7.1. Request for support of exceeding 2TB VMDK backup. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.itsm.ve.inst.doc/r_ve_hwreqs.html?resultof=%22...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 6 Delivered

Automating the management of certificates on devices

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Increase speed of eeadm tape export on large file systems

The automotive supplier ZF uses Spectrum Archive EE in multiple installations as DR solution, as migration destination and to move data around the world (export / import). On the main site, they run a >30Pbyte file system for ADAS development a...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Delivered

Expansion of volumes with a FlashCopy mapping

Currently you have to stop and delete the FlashCopy mapping, if like to expand the volume capacity! Today we run a cirtial process to replace a volume in the LVM / ZFS-Pool to expand capacity. After the process is finished, Easy-Tier must learn an...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Handle removals of GM Master LSS on hardware

When Copy Set are removed from Sessions with DS8000 GM role pairs, the GM Master may continue to form CGs and therefore is not stopped/restarted even in case a GM Master reconfiguration might make sense. For example, if all Volumes from a Master L...
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Add GM Master Location to Global Mirror Info tab

With newer CSM sessions including multiple GM legs simultaneously, it would be very helpful to show the Location of the GM master in the display. This would help identify and differentiate the GM masters and lead to less confusion.
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

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