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Storage Protect Family

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prioritize free space balancing in container storage pool directories more efficiently

For example: rather than filling some directories up to 100% while leaving others at 40%, have all directories at 60%Currently experiencing an ongoing issue for over 1 year where directories are maxing out at 100% full because it fills them up wit...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

GM needs Ubuntu supported for the Spectrum Scale HSM Client asap

Customer has purchased 130PB SP License and needs to run Ubuntu for the Protect Server and HSM Client
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

SPP during Resouce Registration have option to sign to resource group

During customer Meeting, it was asked if during registration of resource they could have the ability to assign resource to a resource group
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Tiring by occupancy

Add the ability to define tiring rule, that takes node occupancy into account.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

add NetApp SnapVault Scheduling and File Indexing to SPP

In Spectrum Protect Plus it should be possible to trigger NetApp SnapVault snapshots to NetApp Secondary Storage Systems on Prem or on Cloud and to list existing snapshots and index the files they contain. Possible restores should also be triggere...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect support for gluster filesystems

Spectrum Protect client should support the gluster filesystem.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

To hold expiration for particular version of VM snapshot backup copy on Backup server

Currently we are facing issue to retain particular date's backup copy of the VM snapshot. For example: There is an request from customer to perform a file-level restore from VM snapshot from oldest copy. If its Unix VM, OS team takes sometime to c...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable REST via commandline

REST API has to be enabled using Open Webbrowser, Login, and Check the "Enable REST" Checkbox.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TSM reports RC4 rather than RC12 Failed when an NFS volume mounts okay, but permission to underlying directories is denied

NFS share backup scheduled backup not reporting a failure when TSM server cannot back up directory due to permission denied. The event table reports the schedule with a return code 4. The permission to the underlying directories (NetApp qtrees) mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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