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DS8XXXX Improve How Fibre Channel Port Location is Displayed in GUI

Under a previous RFE it was requested to add in the physical location of an IO Port to the New DS8 GUI in the Fibre Channel Ports view:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=121398 In the old GUI when we went to c...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

ISPP: Support btrfs - Single file restore & File indexing

We see a huge lack of compatibility in ISPP for ALL Suse customers worldwide.currently btfrs is not supported, which will cause two main issues:- Fileindexing is not supported, so direct single file restore is not possible- If you do an "instant a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Port time blocked percentage metric

Request to get the metric "Port time blocked percentage" added into Storage Insights available metrics to monitor. This metric is a calculated value available in regular iostats and L3/dev indicate this value is calculated as :Time Blocked Percent...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

vSNAP space reclamation

Currently, when a pool's capacity decreases ie by the expiration of backups, the vSNAP server doesn't seem to issue any kind of zero-ing or SCSI Unmap command to let the underlying infrastructure reclaim the space.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Be able to run a pre upgrade validation script before a code upgrade

Ability to run a pre-upgrade validation script as part of planning phase of a code upgrade
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Workload Re-Balancing between vSnaps in a single site

More dynamic workload distribution would be a great feature to add into SPP. For example vSnap 1 is 75% full and newly added vSnap 2 is 5% full therefore migrate some of the existing snapshots (base and incremental) to vSnap 2 for dynamic workload...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

.NVRAM and vTPM restore needed with DP for VE VMware

Restore of a VMware guest does not include .NVRAM and vTPM. VMware points out, that backup software should take care of backup and restore of these two objects.https://vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/8f96698a-0e7b-4d67-bb6c-d18a1d10...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Improve SPP Scheduler

Scheduler is not enough flexible. Need an enhanced-like tsm schdeduler. Case :a VM can be backuped by differents Sla's, with theirs own retention and start time. we need :- to add some exclusions (exclude a soecific hour, day, week, month , exclud...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Selectable location for Cloud instance (compliancy with regulations - showstopper to use SI)

Banking customer requires their Storage Insights instance to be hosted in Europe. If not, they are not allowed to use Storage Insights. Customer would therefore also have to be able to select the location for their instance.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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