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Spectrum Protect Plus - hardware snapshot integration with Power and x86

Spectrum Protect Plus does not support storage hardware snapshot technology and the integration with Power VS and x86.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DRP Pool Metrics per vDisk -> Sizes and Savings

The vDisk display in DRP pools must match those of the legacy pools. Especially the size display and the savings have to be transparent. New functions like deduplication and compaction schould get their own metric as well.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Allow wildcard patterns for node names in tiering rules

Support the usage of wildcard pattern for node names in storage tiering rules.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

extend number of independent filesets

For a file system used in a large research facility with a capacity beyond 20 PB, we would like to generate at least 5000 independent filesets for projects being active in processing and generating data. We expect initially a demand for 5000 indep...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Role Change For Spectrum Control

Currently, there are only two roles in Spectrum Control: Administrator and Monitor. Administrator can do everything in Spectrum Control. Monitors can do nothing, not even create reports. We would like the monitor role to be expanded for that purpo...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

ARM support for Spectrum Protect client

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes. The persistent data are backed up by Spectrum...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Future consideration

Ability to export backup data from directory container Storage pool and mover node data from a Directory Container stgpool

SYSTEM: Product IBM Spectrum Protect ACTOR: User requires additional option of the export/import node to include backup and archive data stored on directory container object storage pool, both on on and off premise.Function to back up a directory ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Ability to upgrade CSM via the DS8000 GUI or embedded CLI

Having CSM integrated onto the DS8000 HMCs has been very helpful for a number of clients. Currently, however, it is only possible for a client to upgrade CSM to a desired level via the external DSCLI. For most clients that use CSM on the HMC, this...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Include "date" command to report system-date on IBM Storage Virtualize products . . .

During automation, lot of times system date needs to be retrieved from storage system. Currently one has to run undocumented "svqueryclock" command. Would be better if we can provide/support "date" command (or some one word variance of it) to offi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Storage Scale - Safe-guarded snapshots - allow expiration - give client to set its own expiration parameter in the GUI snapshot rule

By setting the "Allow Expiration" for snapshot rules under the GUI, it sets the snapshot only until the next execution, not for the whole retention, neither allows to client to sets its own retention. Based on the IBM Documentation "https://www.ib...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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