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using remote clients as helper nodes for policy scans and processing migration

Usually, IBM recommends to pool all ESS Storage Servers in a so called storage cluster and then connect one or multiple remote client / or so called / compute clusters to the ESS. In fact, thats meanwhile a common best practice cluster topology. O...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Improve handling instructions for VTS CBR3750I messages

The IBM TS7700 hardware produces a lot of information, warning and alert messages in the format of CBRxxxxx – similar to DFSMSrmm and DFSMSoam messages – which may require operator intervention by the client to mitigate or fix errors before escala...
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Capacity-less child pools to use for QoS

Allows the use of QoS settings for pools of volumes to be different than other pools of volumes. This could be used for prod vs non-prod, or broken up by different business units for a customer.
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Provide option to prevent object-splitting on tape

Having clients archiving and restoring directly to and from tape we're trying to have the least possible amount of tape mounts. However at the end of a lot of tapes the last file gets split when EOV occurs. There should be an option to consider a ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP should disable vSphere storage vMotion during backup

If vSphere storage vMotion is performed during SPP VM backup there may be left orphaned VMDK files on datastores. This causes operational problems for customers
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

success ful backup in database

So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Operation Center Client deployment - Package refresh cycle not visible as process

The package refresh cycle is not visibile on the hub server as a process, so it can not be monitored or observed in any way. it is even not really possible to see if it is running or not. We need to have this as a normal process like all other ope...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client deployment - query state of update package deployment

We need to be able to query the state of client deployment package distribution to spoke server. So which spoke server has successfully received its deployment package and is ready to update its client nodes, which spoke server failed to receive i...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client deployment - be able to deploy packages with command

Currently the polling and distributing of client deployment packages occurs every morning at 08:00 on the OC server, it is not officially possible to start this manually. Also if started manually with the undocumented refresh pkg command the proce...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SP Operation Center - Enhance View - Storage --> Tape Device

In the OperationsCenter gui in Storage --> Tape Devices the link to 'Libraries' on the top left is pointing to the same location as the upper link: Storage --> Tape Devices https://servername:11090/oc/gui#tapeIt would make more sense to poin...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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