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dont perform a FULL backup of all vmdks if only one vmdk is resized

Resizing of the VMware VM disk will trigger a reset of the CBT data of that specific disk. This causes a FULL backup of the entire VM. Not only the resized disk will be backed up fully, but all other disks too.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

SCDM - Re-use SSH sessions for IBM SVC Storage

Spectrum Copy Data Management creates new SSH sessions when running SVC CLI commands. Each CLI commands requires opening an SSH session and once the CLI command completes, closing the SSH session. Instead of opening a new SSH session for every CLI...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Data inegrity checksum on stored data

In the time of Big Data the storage solutions are increasing in magnitude. With the growth of the data the risk of being hit by a silent data corruption also increases. Spectrum Scale itself does not check the data integrity stored on the NSD. It ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Fusion HCI Management Server

The Fusion HCI Rack should have a dedicated 1U Management server. This would be a low cost Linux server, single socket. The server would have the provision code as well as remote support tools. This could include remote access for IBM support, sim...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

Customize visible Name for the Device in Browser-TAB

The customization of the visible Device-Name in the Browser-Header or Browser-Tab will be helpfull, if you have to manage multiple Devices. If you have to manage you will be able to identify the different Devices when you are able, to set the Devi...
8 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Automatic Performance reports of Fiber channel IO

it would be great to have a way of automating performance reports of a ds8k through storage insights. for example during an LCP Push/ pull be able to have an automated report which gets created and can be sent to an email address. we pull these ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SafeGuardCopy data offload with system migrate

offload Spectrum Virtualize Safeguard copy volumes to another system to extend the retention period and avoid hitting system limits on vdisk and safeguard copy mappings.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Satellite CoreOS images deployment

Make it possible via automation scripts in Fusion GUI to deploy also Core OS satellite Images, today only RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 is possible.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

Hello Team, Looking for some enhancement for Operation center, Security Notification Feature
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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