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allow audit of copy-container pools

Some customers demand proof-read of tape based storage pools on a regular basis. We have used AUDIT VOLUME for this purpose even though its primary purpose is to check consistency of data but by doing that, it also reads all data from the tapes. B...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

CSM To Include the System and Path for any Alert Message About Paths

Please include the system and the path in any email notifications about paths. Also these messages should be logged to the console as well as being sent in email.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Super easy way to begin.

It feels to me like we’re walking away from customers who are critical to our Cloud success. Development has told me they have been forced into supporting a 4-node cluster as the bare minimum for Fusion Data Catalog (FDC). I believe this is an inc...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

A better way (single node cluster)

11 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Alert when Storwize devices are seeing slow internode traffic

If the internode traffic is too high for an extended period of time, send out a warning. If it above a certain threshold, send out an error. I'm not sure what the warning/error thresholds should be ( I'll leave that to IBM ). In this situation rel...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Improved reporting to support daily operations

Customers have requested a better way to report and manage space within a pool. The example given was:It is very difficult to work out how much space a snapshot or a series of snapshots are consuming in a pool with IBM storage, other vendors make ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

SPP should support running different code levels on the SPP server and vSnap servers during migration/upgrades

SPP customers running a single SPP server with many vSnap servers need to be able to upgrade the SPP code in the environment in a controlled/phased manner. This means that they need to upgrade the SPP server and vSnap servers at different times an...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow to ignore out_of_memory health issues

We have users running memory-intensive research programs that regularly trigger out_of_memory situations. These clear up pretty quickly. However, the system monitor (mmsysmon) retain the out_of_memory information until the affected host reboots. A...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

add fromdate/todate option to the command "delete backup <vm> -objtype=vm "

the fromdate / todate option is available for many delete backup commands but not for -objtype=vm We had cases where the expire inventory did not cleanup the vm backups ( when using replicate node ) , in order to fix this , we have to use the dele...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

add a NetApp Snapshot based backup and restore functionality to SPP

Addition of a function to secure NetApp file server with SPP on vSnap server. This should be done on the basis of NetApp snapshots. The feature should be able to replace the current Spectrum Protect feature for NetApp data protection at the file l...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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