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The customer request Storage Insights to have a Safe Guarded Copy capacity planning tool similar to StorM

The customer would like to use Safe Guarded Copy but wants to understand the capacity requirements using Storage Insights
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Ability to delete volumes from vSnap storage.

The ability to empty or move data from existing storage disks and then delete the disks volumes from a vSnap server would make the process of changing the underlying storage environment much easier. If we want to change out an EOS/EOL storage arra...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Product requirements related to performance monitoring

1.Distinguish between creating and opening indicators at the VFS level 2.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, distinguish the read and write latency indicators of different clusters. 3.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, d...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

DS8 IBM i Volumes Should Include Modern Sizes in Dropdown

When creating IBM i volumes, the default size dropdown includes all the way from 8 GiB to 262.9 GiB, however with all of our modern IBM i environment, the minimum size we use for iASP at least is 477 GiB, which means that we always just have to ch...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Parallel disk merging and VM Creation during multiple VM restore.

When we initiate multiple VM restore, we have observed that VM creation and disk merging is going in sequential manner. One VM is getting created at a time after disk merging process. Whereas if it is possible to perform parallel VM creation and d...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

SP EXCHANGE: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function to allow Spectrum Protect for Mail MS- Exchange to read raw .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - G Suite support needed

We need local backup for ours users who has been migrate from Domino to G Suite.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Minimize Upgrade time for Flash System canisters

Today upgrade of Flash System controller take around 20 minutes per canister.This means less performance , less ports that are in use , and put the customer in risk , in case the second canister have problem during the upgrade of the first canister.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Enhanced Schedule for Months with 5 Weekends

Need another option to schedule backup Jobs for months with 5 weekends in a month ,
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Set permission for support: with customized client message or schedule of when collection of support data is allowed

Currently client can define in “set permission for support” if he allows support to collect support data without asking the client in advance This new feature will allow customer to either set a customized message 1/ ““Please collect data via SI o...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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