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Operation Center - limit resource usage

Operation Center should have a way to limit the resource that it could use from the servers. By not having, this simple monitoring tool can put the production enviroenment in danger, using far more resources that it should.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 3 Not under consideration

TSM needs to stop trying to load the same tape media to the same drive after hundreds of failures with ANR8944E and ANR8359E.

on 11/03/14 during a tape pool reclamation, 721 counts of "ANR8944E..." messages from "05:52:58" to "06:28:28" for volume I41079 and TKLI4-DR6 were received by TSM server. See blow:11/03/14 05:52:58 ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive TKLI4-...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

support filesystem metadata migration to 4K-based NSDs

Provide a transparent (e.g. no downtime) mechanism to introduce NSDv2 4k-aligned metadata NSDs into filesystems created with NSDv1 format NSDs.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

virtualized WindowsCluster protection by TSM for VE and FCM

WindowsClusters can not be realized as snapshot by Vpshere is disabled by Vpshere itself. Snapshot API by Vsphere is used by TSM for VE and FCM .
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Delete induvidial export from volhistory or delete based on device class

My customer created all monthly and yearly data via export especially for TSM for VE data. Tapes should be expired after a year luckly 2 diffrent mngmt classes used for monthly and yearly. 1st issue TSM can not delete individual export volumes onl...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP PLUS: ENHANCE SPP TO UPDATE VM GUID INTO AN EXISTING BACKUP

-Enhance SPP plus to be able to update VM GUID into an existing backup.- An option that updates the globally unique identifier (GUID) for the virtual machine that are being backed up.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Add option to backup VM with Shared Virtual Hard Disks.

With the current release of IBM Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V, VM's with Shared virtual disks cannot be backed-up (error message: ANS2552E Backup of a virtual machine that has a shared virtual hard disk is not supported.). Add an option similar lik...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

IBM V3700 Storewize Email functionality

Hello Team, Currently, our storewize has been configured with email feature under the path (Notifications --> Email configured) and we do receive "Alert Event Notifications" whenever there is an issue/event generated within Storewize like Drive...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Change how SVC GUI pool percentages are calculated

Currently, the SVC GUI calculates pool utilization (volumes by pool section) by utilized / virtual capacity. This gives you a false sense of utilization because if you're overprovisioned, you will hit the physical capacity and the pool will go rea...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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