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Rebuild used extents with DRAID

The current design in DRAID is rebuild all of exents,even most of extents don't have real data.Customer hope to DRAID can support optimize mode that only rebuild used space.With optimize mode, rebuild time can be shortened significantly. This is v...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Document update to be more precise in what is not supported

In the Spectrum Protect Server document, "Configuring clustered environments" section, there is a line below. > You can use other cluster products with IBM Spectrum Protect; however, documentation is not available and support is limited. https:...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Proof of Tape encryption

Since IBM made the decision to remove encryption from TSM4VE backups, we were forced to enable physical tape encryption for client data. There is currently no means to verify that a physical volume has been encrypted. The only method within Spectr...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Improvement of the DS8000 decommission process

The embedded DSCLI should support the key management commands.
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Unprotected VMs View

At present it is quite hard to answer the question ‘what am I not backing up'. SPP displays a summary of this on the home page (Source Protection) and the Policy Overview page. On neither of these can I just click on the number shown and see a lis...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP : User to do FLR limitations

The user defined to catalog file metadata has to have all sudo permissions and this can be a security problem. Our Customer wants the list of sudo commands necessaries to catalog file metadata and restore files in the servers.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

dsmc backup image shall support HACMP filesystems

When you have large filesystems with 100 milliions of files the normal TSM client is not usefull for doing daily incremental backup. Even with the journal based backup this is not applicable. You can use the dsmc backup image command. But if the f...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

SPP - offload (copy) or archive a specific version (not only the last one)

currently, a copy or an archive can be made via scheduler or via "planning" tab.in both cases, only the last version is copied or archived.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Catalog file discovery results failed in VM Backup

SPP can run catalog file metadata on backup VM for different vLans networks.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Global Mirror volume write throughput

Need an ability to see the Global Mirror Volumes listed on "Copy Data Screen" under General Tab. Also, need a total value of Global Mirror auxiliary volume write throughput as mentioned in the following webpage: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectru...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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