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Exchange large files (> 4GB) between Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive clusters

ZF has the requirement to exchange mainly large files (> 4GB) between Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive clusters in Germany and Poland. The capacities to be exported are up to 500 TB per day. The requirement is that the files that are exchang...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - DB validation prior to tape restore

Requesting that IBM complete a precheck of the system/DB target prior to the starting of the tape restore using Production mode. The case referenced above - TS006352692 was generated after waiting 36 hours for the tape restore and failure could ha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Set access for TDPO Database as read-only

a function in the TDPO that allows the database to do the same as the "set access" option for a normal node. i.e. for a possibility to grant read-onlyaccess to a backups taken with Data Protection for Oracle.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Restore virtual machine WITHOUT recovering specific disks

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V suite offers the option to exclude certain disks when restoring a virtual machine. See page 159 of the "IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Version 8.1.9 - ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Events and reports from the IBM Spectrum Protect from VE to the Operation Center.

Centralize the possibility to view from the IBM Spectrum Protect Operational Center all the events generated by the IBM Spectrum Protect for VE and also the creation, execution and visualization of the IBM Spectrum Protect VE reports from the Oper...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Ability to import OVL into ESX host without vCenter

In previous versions with the CentOS based OVL it was possible to import the SPP OVL into an ESX host running without vCenter. For the latest 10.1.11, RedHat based OVL this function is not working.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than

Tram asked me to open RFE for Ford Hi Ron, Doug has asked if you can open a RPQ for IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than -2Ford has opened a Mellanox ticket on...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

TS7700 Feature License panel should list "enabled"

Add column to feature license panel. Features are listed as activated but does not indicate if enabled. The additional column could be "Status" - ENABLED/DISABLED or "Enabled" YES/NO. Another option would be to issue a CLI command listing all lice...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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