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3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

SPP Container backup support unsupported storage class exclusion

We wish to have a better exclusion feature for currently unsupported storage classes.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to track licensing of SCU and TiB in Storage Insights

With the move to adopt SI and eliminate the need for an on-prem Spectrum Control instance, one area that we cannot track in SI is Licensing. Today in Control we can list out all 4 tiers and usage of SCU and TiB. This report is useful for yearly su...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow more than one NTP server in Spectrum Virtualize Products

Most products that require time synchronization allow more than one NTP server to be specified. Spectrum Virtualize products only allow one server and that only via the IP address. Here, IBM has to make improvements and allow more than one server....
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

Add media verification result to dataCartridges RestAPI endpoint

All clients using media verification would benefit from the result being provided in the RestAPI output. Today the result can only be displayed on a per cartridge basis in the GUI. This is not a practible audit trail.
7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

Rolling upgrades of space management client.

When upgrading the space management client, event if there are multiple HSM nodes, it is required to disable HSM globally while space management and backup-archive clients and API are removed and reinstalled on all nodes. For clusters with multipl...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus native application-aware snapshot/recovery support of Google Cloud Platform VMs

Support for SPP to snapshot/recover Google Cloud VMs via API (like VMware VM support). Need capability of installing both the SPP server and vSnap in GCP.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Space Management (HSM) for ppc (power) Linux

With the evolution of Spectrum Scale (esp. ESS) running on our ppc Hardware on Linux it is required to have this capability to reduce the number of objects to manage (i.e. an extra AIX or x86 system to handle the HSM migration out of ESS or other ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

vSnap Failover Functionality

Currently, vSnap servers do not have integrated failover functionality. This means if a vSnap is not available, and a backup runs pointing to this vSnap, backup will fail. Automatic failover should happen if a vSnap is not available. Backup then s...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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