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Support of SVC stretched incremental snapshot by Spectrum Copy Data Management (SCDM)

According to SCDM documentation, ii should be able to create mirrored snapshot when using an SVC with Enhanced Streched Cluster. Unfortunately this is not yet supported/working when Incremental Snapshots are used.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Increase number of compressed volumes in an I/O group to beyond 200

Real-time Compression delivers great value to Storwize V7000 and SVC products. <br /><br />Currently the number of compressed volume copies is limited to 200 per I/O group. This limitation imposes challenges in the field with user...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

In Spectrum Scale with Spectrum Archive ES solution, customer want to know hwo many data are in disk and tapes

Customer attaches few x86 nodes into ESS cluster and enable Spectrum Archive EE in those x86 nodes to archive cold data from ESS tapes. Customer create few fileset to provide data service for their end uses in different department. The requirement...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize STAT tool in GUI

Incorporate the STAT tool into the GUI in SVC / Storwize Family (Spectrum Virtualize).
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Immutable feature on Object storage

We would like to keep the backup data that we copied on cloud as immutable.This means that the data will remain indelible for the period we set.Thus, we can protect our data from attacks such as hackers who intentionally want to delete them.Spectr...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

Copy Services Manager Should Not Delete Relationships from Storage Hardware when Removing Systems from CSM

Change the Behavior of Copy Services Manager so that removing the storage system from Copy Services Manager will not delete the relationships on the Storage Hardware.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

mirror storage pool

For one storage pool to be an exact replica of another pool and be equivalent in every way, to the extend that if one pool becomes unavailable all activity continues on the remaining pool, including write activity. This would also involve changing...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

DS8000 SafeGuarded Copy - Create backup delayed

OS clients: IBM i and ZIndustry: Banking, Insurance and health When the SGC run at the DR site, we need to suspend GM session for creating backup.Stopping GM session for 5 (five!) minute only for backup and 10 minute for overall SGC task - increas...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Support needed on client side dedupliaction for NextStgPool when MaxSize is being used on first storage pool.

Support is needed for client deduplication not being disabled for the rest of the session, if an object from a client exceed the defined MaxSize on the first storage pool, and then is being backed up to the next storage pool (which might or might ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

mmbackup does not handle EXCLUDE.DIR rules preferentially over EXCLUDE rules

The TSM BA client dsmc by default includes everything in the backup domain (defaults to all local filesystems), optionally allowing one to exclude paths and even re-include paths that would by excluded by previous rules. There are two mechanisms f...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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