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Parameter to exclude powered off virtual machines

The rule based inclusion- and exclusion parameters for TSMVE 6.4 works very well. However we would like to have the ability to exclude virtual macines that are powered off.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

ESS support RoCE lossy Network

ESS support RoCE over lossless setting by adapter and switch. But lossless network will limit the overall cluster size. We need ESS to support RoCE Lossy network. As we known, The full IB network has the best performance, followed by RoCE, and the...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Be able to configure the proxy server with IP ADDRESS and not only with FQDN

Some customers use the proxy server with IP instead of FQDN due to internal rules
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

v5000 shows as 2076 instead of 2078 when zoned to SVC

When customer adds a V5000 backend stores and zones to the SVC, it shows as a 2076 (V7000) instead of 2078 (V5000). Customer would like this to represent the correct M/T for the storage type added.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

DB backup not running on all nodes in oracle

we have customers with oracle DBs that have some DBs registered in all nodes but that are not running in all nodes, and the SPP cannot backup these DBs, it is necessary to make the SPP capable of doing so
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Needs more information

Improve Host reporting in Spectrum Control

Spectrum Control has some ability to report hosts that are making use of resources, such as volumes on a Spectrum Virtualize pool. But this reporting is not complete.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

allow users to add a delay to trigger ESC quorum race in case of sites being disconnected to allow for SAN re-connection

allow users to add a few seconds to the SVC re-try and decision process before triggering a quorum race in case of loss of connection between sites. This would allow redundant inter-site connection to complete SAN connectivity between sites fail o...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support multiple INCR Flash Copy backups with DS8000 storage

Currently FlashCopy Manager supports only one Incremental FlashCopy backup can be performed in a DS8000 environment. With DS8000 Licensed Internal Code (LIC) 7.7.40 multiple incremental FlashCopy relationships became available. A single volume can...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

add fast format (quick format) in SVC

Please add quick format (or fast format) on spectrum virtualize platforms similar to as it's implemented currently on DS8000.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration