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Disable NFS export

When having maintenance on larger file systems, it's advisable to first do a clean shutdown, and then enable maintenance mode with mmchfs --maintenance-mode to avoid anyone mounting or processes messing with the file system. This is quite problema...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Add "Remove" disk to Virtualize GUI

Add "remove disk" function to the GUI. To remove a disk required using the CLI. In the above ticket, the SV1 phoned home for a drive throwing errors. It was determined the drive needed to be replaced. The SSR went on site and was working with the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Web based Blue-print document for Spectrum protect /plus

We are using Blue-Print document to configure our environment for Spectrum protect / plus. This is document and many times it gets ignored by customers to configure their environment. It is important to refer blue-Print document before sizing / co...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Provide OC / SP error that will notify us when server instance crash or hang

Is there an OC / SP error that will notify us when dsmserv is down (db2 is either down or up) and, notify us when an instance appears to be hung? IF that can be produced later on that would be a great advantage to keep administrators ahead with an...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Make CSI upgrade easier for disconnected clusters

At the present time when you want to upgrade spectrum scale's CSI there's no clear documentation: I go to the target version section and then to the 'upgrade' part. But there's nothing written for a disconnected cluster and for RHEL servers. To ha...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

When we increase a disk of a VMClient a Full VE backup is the result.

When we change a VMClient disk for example from 5TB to 10GB TSM is making a full VE backup.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Show Unprotected VM detail from Protection Summary

The Protection Summary section of the Policy Overview page shows protected and unprotected Virtual Machines. However I would expect to be able to click on the 'Unprotected' icon, for example, and get a list of unprotected VM's, but this is not the...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

extend the Operations Center REST API by reporting functionality

extend the Operations Center REST API by functions to query reporting values, as they are provides by the "General Operations" report
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE - Hyper-V, Change default restore location in MMC

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment - Hyper-V v8.1.8 on Hyper-V 2016: Is it possible to change the default restore location inside the MMC GUI when doing a Virtual Maschine Restore? If yes, how? Right now the default location (C:\ProgramData\...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

TSM Client Support for ZFS on Linux filesystems

ZFS has been ported to Linux distributions, namely, Redhat Linux and other SysV environments. This RFE proposes to enable support for ZFS on Linux filesystems as a natively supported filesystem for backup and archive via the standard Linux TSM BA ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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