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Cloud based quorum

For SVC stretched clusters more flexibility is required. Currently only a expensive fibre channel solution can be used as a quorum system in the 3rd location.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

CSM - Email alerts for dual access control

We would like to have the option to enable email alerts for certain dual access control groups.
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Enhanced VM excludes for TSM for VE

Enhancement to TSM for VE set up to allow an include/exclude file for selective exclusion / inclusion of VMs from backup (similar to BAClient model).
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 6 Delivered

Upload DS8000 On-Demand Dumps (ODD) from Storage Insights

Would like to be able to upload DS8000 On-Demand Dumps (ODD) from Storage Insights. These are necessary to investigate issues on DS8000 and require to be generated rapidly (contents are rapidly overwritten). As of today, Storage Insights offers on...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Support for more that one OCP Cluster

With support for only one OCP cluster, It will be difficult for our customers to do upgrades on the same platform. If you have 10 different OpenShift workloads on a single OCP 4.8. cluster. How do you upgrade to some of those workloads to another ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Delivered

Replication data communication encryption in transit using TLS

Encryption of data at flight: Currently our spectrum Virtualize software is able to do a encryption of data at rest. This capability means that data is encrypted as it is written to disks by the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Controllers, and not by disk...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add decomission node command to TSM

An ability to put a node into 'decomissioned' mode, so that it can locked and cannot perform any more backups but is still available for restore. At the same time the node data can be scheduled for deletion after a period of days that is compliant...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 11 Delivered

Storwize - simplify flashcopy restoration process

Currently in the event of restoring a volume using a flashcopy it is required for a reverse flashcopy to be created and then the new mapping to be started with the -restore flag. This requires a degree of understanding of how the technology that i...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

CSM Primary to automatically reconnect to the standby server after the standby CSM task is recycled or vice/versa Standby reconnects automatically to Primary

Every time one of our CSM started tasks is recycled or if an lpar is IPL'd when the CSM started task comes back up it does NOT reconnect to either the standby or the primray (depending on which CSM task that was shutdow/restarted. The ability of t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

VTS Physlib enhancement - TS7760T

For library maintenance operations, the TS7770T has to be put in Service Prep mode. Hence during all operations even planned ones, this cluster is unavailable.From ATS: unfortunately the Physlib is not designed for "planned outages". See the Host ...
over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

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