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SPVE vCenter Backup Failure resolution

We are using SPVE to backup vCenter appliances. We frequently get timeout errors when creating snapshot. Would like some facility to resolve this issue, possibly an option to extend the timeout value.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Manual Installation SPP Plus Client

File System Inventory Failing to complete over the WAN. According to support this could due the low network bandwidth between the SPP Server and the remote client. I ask a procedure to manually install the client on the remote server and Support a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GPFS client support larger memory address space

Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Mailbox Item Level restore

There is functionality with ISP for Mail (Exchange) that let administrators to restore mailbox item from mailbox database backup, using Mailbox Restore Browser - functionality in ISP for Mail GUI, but it works up to MS Exchange 2013. With Exchange...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".

When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Client memory automatically shrinks.

When clients open a lot of files, MMFSD takes up a lot of memory. When the file is closed, the memory should be freed automatically.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Point in Time Restore facility

With DB2 as core of TSM to reduce the impact and time to restore a TSM-DB we want to have a function like point in time restore capability. These Function enable us to reduce our outage window in an case of an disaster.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Linux command for managing Spectrum Discover

Most UNIX/Linux users are used to work on the command line. I would like to propose the following idea: create a command called "sdcli" (Spectrum Discover cli) or "dmcli" (Data Management cli) which can be a shell or Python script and can be insta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Automatically clear errors, and send alarm clear trap, for self healing errors

The svc code sends snmp traps when an event or an error occurs. To make error handling easier, it would be nice to get the svc to clear selffixed issues. A trap that states that the error has been automatically resolved should be sendt to the trap...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

File level restore web GUI - Prevent providing TSM admin credentials

To enable the file level restore web GUI, from the TSM for VMware web GUI configuration wizard, it is required to enter TSM admin server credentials. Due to security reasons it is not desirable to be able to connect to the TSM admin ports or to lo...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration