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Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Server support for Red Hat 8

Spectrum Protect server needs to run on latest Red Hat Enterpise Linux editions 8 and 8.1.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

DRP Pool Metrics per vDisk -> Sizes and Savings

The vDisk display in DRP pools must match those of the legacy pools. Especially the size display and the savings have to be transparent. New functions like deduplication and compaction schould get their own metric as well.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to Storage Insights so that you can see the performance of a volume compared to throttles that are set.

Understanding how a volume is performing compared to throttles set on it is very important. Currently, throttles are not represented in Storage Insights. I want to be able to see how much of a QoS a volume is using. I also want to be able to set a...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Pct Util calculation needs to either show more decimal places, or otherwise somehow scale based on larger possible volume sizes

Regarding case TS012335757, due to the large size of the volumes, Pct Util was showing 0.0, but there was actually data stored there. This led to confusion over why the volumes were not returning to scratch. As an example, 2.5GB on a 1TB tape show...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Unique identifier for virtualized Spectrum Virtualize products to allow better integration with VMWare

VMWare users who are virtualizing multiple different models of Spectrum Virtualize controllers behind SVC have no way of differentiating these at the VMWare as they are all presented of type "2145" or "SVC". This means that different round-robin p...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) support for RSA SecurID

Many large, heavily regulated enterprises require multifactor authentication (MFA) on mission critical technology assets. One of the most popular on-prem MFA solutions is RSA SercurID. RSA is supported on the IBM DS8k product, it should also be su...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Storage Scale and Spectrum Archive: If a pre-migrated or migrated file is deleted, provide a limited window to recover it without having to use Storage Protect

Current documentation states that for a space-managed fileset if you use snapshots it triggers a recall of the data from tape to disk. The University of Michigan was always told this is a limitation in Storage Scale not Spectrum Archive and that t...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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