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Define VMWare backup order

I need a way to define the vm backup order within a DOMAIN.VMFULL list
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

decommission of a node or vm requires system level privilege

When decommissioning a node or VM – even if the user is the node owner they cannot decommission it. To decommission anything you have to have system level privileges. Yes, this is an issue as we have to provide elevated permissions to contractors ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

GUI for Spectrum Scale MMBACKUP function requested from MD Anderson Cancer Center

Spectrum Scale new RFE being pursued by Tram, Gabe, Jonathan and Raul, via Scale Case TS002279140 and Crit Sit AB1835.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Signing of Spectrum scale modules

Requesting signing of spectrum scale V5 and higher, reason when installing gpfs on SuSE SLES 15 SP1 cluster fail to be active due to, tracedev.ko module not signed. Latest SLES 15 has a security feature secure boot, that deny unsigned modules to b...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

TSM4VE Cloud Service Provider Mode

Because of all ransomware attacks we see more transformations from other backup vendors back to IBM Storage Protect for VE, but the issue with TSM4VE is that it demanding a System Account in the Storage Protect Server to be able to work, we have d...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Better Information for Storage Rule

If we run any Storage rule like Replication or Tiering of data between pools and we see it failed of some reasons. A natural way to investigate a issue is to run the same command manually using wait=yes and in that way get more information, but ve...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Spectrum Scale Call Home for AIX

Provide the Call Home feature for AIX like the Linux feature
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Quota management delegation

I was discussing removal of root use for commands with ibm dev Germany and this came up. Need the ability to delegate quota management to different groups of users on large scale file systems. You can have different admins for different teams resp...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect TDP for VE - restore procedure for one of the VMDK should allocate only the space of that VMDK

TDP for VE, restore one of multiple source hard disks of a VM. The disk to restore is 50GB another disk of the source VM is 2TB, actually the product allows to restore the small (50GB) disk only after allocating the whole space that was used by th...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Avoid restore from copy pool when primary pool is of type VTL

Currently, when backup data is stored in both a primary and a copy pool, TSM restores this data from the pool where the data is located on less tapes. The disadvantage of this method: When using a VTL for the primary pool and physical tape for the...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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