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Single pane of glass for FlashSystem management

Many A9000/R (even still XIV) customers are migrating to Spectrum Virtualize. EVERY one of my customers that has done that asks for the equivalent of HyperScale Manager for FlashSystems. It is a huge whole in the management process of FlashSystems...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SPP VM Backup report shape

VM backup report : all VMmane and details need to be on 1 line only to be usable for further use of selecting and data filtering. I attached VM_Backup_new_look_proposal.xls file which illustrate how we wish to have it. All build-in reports should ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Change status of a need_replace tape

The eeadm tape replace command is a command that take long time because when this command is in the reclaim phase, is only allowed to use two tape drive although a regular "eeadm tape reclaim" command is allowed to use more tape drive. Sometime, a...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

CUIR (Control Unit Initiated Recovery) for DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DASD<-->Z works fineControl Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for Tape<-->Z works fineCUIR works fine with Microcode-Updates and hardware-maintenance Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DA...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

SPP two-factor authentication

Due to several cyber attacks to many companies. Some SPP clients are requiring a two-factor authentication. Overall in SPP WEB UI and SPP WEB admin UI.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

High availability support for vsnap

VSNAP and VADP proxy high availability (clustering ) support. We need to extend the clustering support already available for SPP server to VADP Proxies and Vsnap servers, in combination with HW storage sharing
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins You should be able to add something like the below as an example. Last Backup Completed Successfully - Yes/NoLast Backup Completed At - 01/01...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve Retension Policies

Improve SPP retention policies.Make them similar to classic TSM. (1) Option to always keep last X copies - this means that if the backup fails to run, it does not expire your existing backups. We have been in a situation where SPP was down for 2 w...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Nutanix Acropolis AHV as supported SPP Hypervisor

Please add Nutanix Acropolis AHV hypervisor to the supported Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisors.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

add --auto-inode-limit for independent filesets

In Storage Scale 5.1.4 mmcrfs/mmchfs introduced the --(no)auto-inode-limit switches. Unfortunately this only works for whole filesystems and cannot be finetuned for individual (independent) filesets. There are situations where you have a mixed env...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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