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SPP - Support Incremental Backup of Exchange DBs on ReFS

Customer has recently replaced Commvault with IBM SPP. Only Full Exchange backups are working as the customer is using ReFS.Also, since SPP is using VSS of the Exchange Server, backup of the 2nd Exchange DB cannot be started unless the backup of f...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Avoiding full volume background copy after restoring of one FlashCopy relation in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy env.

The environment we request this enhancement is in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy with cascading FC support. In this environment, The customer will have two incremental FC relationships from one source A as Step1 bellow. Actually they will tak...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Storage Insights needs end-to-end topology view

To investigate issues with performance or connectivity, end-to-end views are needed. These would show the server/host fibre connections to the SAN and to the SVC, likewise from SVC to the SAN to the backend storage. Possibly also show SVC host clu...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Introduce effective quality management

During the last year, we saw many new ISS code levels, most of them with critical errors that could lead to data corruption or data loss. Fortunately, many costumers were spared from data corruption, but they had to update Scale nearly monthly to ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Increase (virtual) DS8000 capacity limits

(virtual) DS8000 capacity is limited to 3652 TiB (approx. 4 PB) with thin provisioning and Small Extents (Thin provisioning and Small Extents is recommended by IBM) 2019 (with) DS8880 we were hit by this limitation. We used some overprovisioning (...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

I noticed that some requests have been made for this support, but I really would like to see some attention given to this issue, because the last driver update is over 3 years old. I need to move on because the end of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is a...
about 1 month ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

IBM TS4300 Tape Automation

Could you please assist us with an issue we're experiencing with our IBM TS4300? When my team needs to load or eject tapes, the process has become very time-consuming. Is it possible to automate this process? We would like to select multiple tapes...
about 1 month ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Make fcp port power statistics available via CLI

FCP port power going marginal is cauing performance issues at customers. Customers want to monitor for port power for proactive management instead of getting intermittant errors which happens when the power drops below good power levels.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Group View by Location

Having a group view "by Location" would bring quite some releave and push effecientcy. With close to 200 Storage devices plus SAN Switches and 20+ Data Centers it would be beneficial for us to get directly the view of a single data center, rather ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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