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Spectrum Protect for VE restore only one disk, default space issue

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Restore Issue. The product design only permits these options when you want to restore only one individual unit like c: 1. If the target guest does not exist yet, space will be assigned on the datastore for...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

GUI: Provide a way to specify a the port to be used for multicluster connects _per cluster_

We have a gpfs gui running on the dss-g xcat server. Unfortunately xcat blocks the default gui port 443 so we had to run the gui on port 8443 (suggestion by Lenovo). However, connects from multicluster gui nodes are not possible this way. We can ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Allow for the update of CSM versions without using DSCLI interface.

Many clients use the DSCLI version built into the HMC GUI. Currently if you would like to upgrade the version of CSM you are required to install the DS8KDSCLI on a third server to facilitate the upgrade. This defeats part of the reason of using th...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Add ability to specify cluster as target for TSM4VE restores

Make it possible to specify ESXi cluster and storage cluster names when restoring VM in TSM4VE
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add support for client encryption on deduplicated data

Support of client specified encryption (password) is needed for client side deduplication. This feature is desired to cover all types of clients from IBM - Backup-Archive, TSM4VE, TDP for SQL, TDP for mail and so on.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale REST API Endpoint for mmafmconfig

We need a way that the Spectrum Scale REST API exposes the mmafmconfig command. In particular the mmafmconfig enable <fileset> is important for us.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow copy storage rules to select only active data AND to allow selection of from-date and to-date for copy to tape in fully hydrated tape copies.

This is useful because starting from scratch and trying to copy multiple inactive as well as the active copy of extremely large data backups (for example Epic databases) to tape for hydrated copies takes an extremely long time. The library is unav...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Enterprise Class Encryption at rest i n Spectrum Protect Plus

Please add an encryption at rest capability with KMIP integration for external key management systems such as IBM SKLM
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change the user running admin schedules

It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: vm search and selection

In the SP Plus interface, in the backup tab (/pages/hypervisor/vmware/backup) , while searching a VM to assign it to a particular SLA Policy, it would be nice to have a filter available to limit the scope of the search. First thing I think about i...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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