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SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DRP Pool Metrics per vDisk -> Sizes and Savings

The vDisk display in DRP pools must match those of the legacy pools. Especially the size display and the savings have to be transparent. New functions like deduplication and compaction schould get their own metric as well.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

speed up PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape

The PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape is way too slow. In a sample environment with quite powerful hardware we only achieve around 200 GB/hour of througput with PROTECT STGPOOL while on the same server BACKUP STGPOOL from other non-container pools run...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level. This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thre...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

Enhancement for Anomaly Detection

I like the idea of Anomaly Detection in Spectrum Protect for the Server, starting in 8.1.5, to detect a possible crypto trojan. But in the our Use Cases it will become clear, that this is not much helpfull.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Need online password validation option for Spectrum Protect database backup

The Spectrum Protect database backups need password to be specified to include master encryption key along with database backup. However, there is no option to validate the password when spectrum protection instance is up and running. The only way...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Restore "not backed up disks" as empty disks in VMWare

Following DR Scenario:VM with a database on it. We backup only the root and opt Disks using VMware backup, DB and log gets backed up using SPP DB Backup. 4 disks:Hard Disk 1 --> rootvg (SCSI0:0) backupHard Disk 2 --> dbvg (SCSI0:1) no backup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - hardware snapshot integration with Power and x86

Spectrum Protect Plus does not support storage hardware snapshot technology and the integration with Power VS and x86.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Check customer informations consistency in both HMC

In the case, the second HCM did a call home, but the customer EMAIL was not present (it was in the first HMC). the problem is certainly an installation problem, but despite this, this problem prevent the support to email back to the customer (writ...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

NFS Export: Show connected clients

Tool that will list the clients that are connected to *a particular NFS (CES) export*
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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