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Support routed networks for management and fsp networks

ESS documentation states that the FSP and Management networks for a stretched cluster has to be: All networks are flat, single namespace (ESS stretch cluster requirements) which I interpret to mean they must be same subnet, not routed. Practically...
12 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Enable Storage Protect backup archive client testflag SKIPDATEMISMATCHWARNING for restore and retrieve

In a replication failover scenario, the Storage Protect backup/ archive client is comparing the local stored last backup/ archive date with the date stored on the Storage Protect server. If the local date is older than the date stored on the Stora...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

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

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...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Fusion Backup and Recovery - Restore single files from VM backup

We would like to implement single file restore for Fusion Backup Restore. Today we are required to restore to a separate namespace and copy files as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion-software/2.8.x?topic=virtualization-ba...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Use raid or erasure coding when storing data on tape

As tape media grows in size, the loss on one tape, maybe 40Tb of data, can be a very harmful. Data should be stored on tapes using erasure coding or raid5 technology. Then data can be recovered and the lost tape can be regenerated. This will great...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Replication policy - Timer for Recovery Copy Sync

We currently see a countdown for the # of TiB remaining, would it be possible to add a time showing the approximate amount of time unles the recovery copy is in sync?
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Support larger tape ranges in the Selective Device Access Control tape range table

The SDAC tape range table supports 50 entries total. A range of A00000-A99999 covers 100K tape volumes. My client uses letters in the second position of the tape volser (A-Z). I have to enter a range such as AA0000-AA9999 (covers 10K tape volumes)...
12 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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 ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Introduce a new command to create additional cache copies within a grid out of existing ones

It is required to have the possibility to create new copies of virtual tapes out of existing (cache) copies in the same grid. As of today, it is not possible to create additional cached copies once the CCP is correct. TS7700 does not distinguish t...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Under review

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