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Support for MS Sharepoint

Support for the protect of Microsoft Sharepoint environments on-premis. File-level recovery.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add GM capability between sites 1&2 and 3&4 to 4 site replication enhanced solution

Currently the 4 site replication enhanced solution allows a client to switch from MM to GC between sites 1&2 or between sites 3&4. Typically this functionality would be used if the MM replication was causing a significant temporary product...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TSM B/A Client "archive vm" equivalent of "backup vm"

In the current TSM b/a client for windows (with VMware tools), there is a "backup vm" command that will perform full image or file level backups for VM guests. There is no option to perform an archive (file level or image) We need the ability to a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

VM recovery problem

Hypervisor vmvare.There is a VM with many connected disks, about 50 TB.Only disk 1 is backed up and needs to be restored.When we start recovery of only the first disk, the recovery mechanism checks for free space in the storage not for disk 1, but...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Alert user when number of volumes assigned to a volume group is different than number of volumes assigned to host group

A situation where an insufficient number of volumes are replicated in a DR scenario could result in a disaster. Alerting to the incorrect number of volumes being replicated could prevent this. The simplest way to determine the "correct" number of ...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Add Year to the date/time stamp in the reports.

Requirement to have the year in the time stamp, to allow for auditing trail of when the report was generated. Currently only the month and the day is provided in the report.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Add additional options for securing the backup locations when using azure blob storage

Currently the product uses the storage account name and key when configuring a backup location on azxure blob stoarge. The recommended way to use azure blob storage described by microsoft is to create a service principal that is used to acess the ...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Ability to Specify protocol -- rdma/tcp -- along with the subnet/cluster reachability

Consider the following use-case: There are two clusters each with multiple nodes. The intra-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes within the cluster) happens via TCP and inter-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes between clusters) happens v...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI need to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen.

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy needs to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen. V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI now takes 16 keystrokes to view 7 consistency group freeze times. It takes 3 keystrokes to view one consistency group freeze...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Future consideration