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ReFS and S2D support for Spectrum Protect server on Windows

The IBM Spectrum Protect server installation on Windows does currently not support the resiliant filesystem (ReFS) from Microsoft as underlying filesystem due to restrictions of supported filesystems for the DB2 database. The Spectrum Protect team...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

IBM SPP to show daily replication throughput

Customer needs to know the daily replication throughput and status for SPP vsnap replication.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

access to the object is denied backup error does not fail a snapdiff backup.

Snapdiff backup shows completed successfully even when encountering ANS4007E access to the object is denied. This error should result if a backup failure. If access denied shows up at directory/volume level then no data may be backed up hence defe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Report fragmentation of an specific file in a Scale filesystem

We would like to report the fragmentation of a single (of course large) file in the Spectrum Scale filesystem.Not mmdefragfs (This command only reports the fragmentation of the complete filesystem.) .You can compare it to the Linux command "filefr...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SPF-I-3280 .. regarding this idea .. can you please explain how this function is working

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

Integrate Restore UI with Spectrum Protect server

Symentac Netbackup, Commuvault and other Backup software have RESTORE UI integrated with Master server console. We need to develop Spectrum Protect with the RESTORE UI integrated with Spectrum Protect server
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

SMB lease support

Migrating system currently using a windows share to Spectrum scale and experiencing performance issues:The Windows server grantsSMB leases to the client, thus multiple opens won't break the client caching. As a result there are fewer and larger RE...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Enable nas backup to use container stg pools

Today celera nas backup must use a devclass=file as target for backup. Please make container stgpool available as a target for NAS backup in general.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TS7700 Performance Management, prioritize important tasks/jobs

• Problem Description:Each task/job using a virtual tape drive of a TS7700 cluster gets an equal fraction of the overall (licensed) bandwidth regardless of its importance or the current utilization (read or write, backup or recovery).Examples: – D...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Support for GPFS Immutable Fileset to be used from NFS exports

GPFS 3.5 and higher has built-in capabilities providing the SnapLock function to make files immutable (WORM protected). This function is based on immutable file sets but it not supported. SnapLock essentially allows to make file immutable using st...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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