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Prometheus Exporter for zimon metrics

For our compute and Storage systems we are running a monitoring setup based on Prometheus in combination with the Prometheus node exporter and Alert manager. To monitor spectrum Scale health we have some self written scripts collecting metrics. Bu...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Add HMC's IP address when creating certificate signing request on DS8K GUI

Currently the certificate signing request created via the DS8K's GUI only allow to have the HMC's DNS in it. If we could add the HMC's IP then both the connection via the DNS and the IP would be secure after the certificate is imported.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

SPP connection to ILMT

In our environment we collect all necessary licenses with ILMT for IBM spectrum protect. In SPP 10.1. according the documentation license requirements could be captured with ILMT (Chapter 19. Licensing).But with clarification on ILMT-side (TS00381...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Lin_Tape support for RHEL 9.4

RHEL 9.4 is the most current OS release for Redhat.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Tape replace to skip bad file

RPQ: 672-92701 When Tape state is changed to need_replace and require_replace, customer was told to migrate their data from bad tape to a new tape cartridge. While if there is a damaged file in the replace tape, ”eeadm tape replace” will stop at t...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Support migrate and recall REST API in storage archive

RPQ: 672-92700 As we know, in hyperscale tape storage system tape archive node works with customer distributed storage system. The current interface between tape archive and customer distributed storage system is command, it is limited in local OS...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Performance improvements for LTO9 unload

RPQ: 672-95268 Both Tencent and Baidu have requested performance improvements for LTO9 unload. Since LTO9 performs low-tension unload this can be slower than LTO8. However, there is an LTO9 option with the RAO command that will optimize the LTO9 u...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Instant VMDK Restore with Overwrite Capabilities

German customer would like the option of restoring VMDK over top of the exisiting original VMDK. The restore today only mounts the VMDK in parallel when recovered back to the original. Competitor VMware VDP for which SPP replaced was able to do a ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap

SPP doesn't support re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap in the event of primary vSnap pool corruption/data loss. A full baseline backup is initiated if backups pointed to secondary or to a new built primary vSnap.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

include log backups in additional copies

In version 10.1.8 transaction log backups (e.g. for MSSQL or MS Exchange) can be replicated between vSnap servers to produce redundant copies.In the "additional copies" feature only the incremental backups of the DBs/applications are copied to the...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release