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Need Support for Open Enterprise Server (OES) OS which is LINUX Distribution

My customer just upgraded his supported OES to a newer version and are being told by IBM that it's no longer support on Spectrum Protect. This OS has been supported in the past (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-x8664-requirements-ibm-st...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

How to gracefully stop the IP quorum application on host

Customer raised question :" how to gracefully stop the quorum application and shut that RHEL server down." Presently , we don't have stop command - hence we have to be dependent on host shutdown It will be good idea to add this new functionality "...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Disable scan of files before archiving when using filelist

We have been archiving with file lists for over 20 years, so we know that the client archived differently and, above all, faster in earlier versions (5-7). If you specified a file list in these old versions, archiving started within a few seconds,...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Capacity Pool Forecasting Report

Customer is looking for some kind of report which they can follow the pool capacity usage with a line of threshold and also a forecasting curve where they can see when the system will reach the full capacity based on predictions of previous usage.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Allow specific GDP fusion backup storage classwith Qos to avoid filling production filesystem

When doing fusion GDP backups to S3, fusion is doing a snapshot and then after a clone using mmxcp. This clone is then transferred to S3. When doing it on production systems, this clone is wasting space on production filesystem (i.e flash) as we n...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add host_unmap option in the auto config wizard

In case we have Flash system behind SVC storage and we are running the wizard of auto config for virtualization - it is important also to add option to configure host_unmap.since by default the wizard does not change the default value.host_unmap o...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Connection to CLOUD through of DNS ALIAS not IP FIXED

In the configuration of CLOUD in TS7770C, in the GUI, the URL what should be used , is a "IP FIXED" (for example, HTTPS://192.xxx.xxx.xx) . It's not possible use a "DNS" name. I think is more versatile the use of the DNS ALIAS vs IP FIXED. I think...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Under review

Enabling etcd Key Value Store Backups in Fusion Backup

Realized this is a duplicate request with: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPFUS-I-70 OCP operational best practices recommend protecting etcd if you are responsible for the availability of the Kubernetes cluster and the built-in etcd ...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Support of custom tolerations for Fusion base, backup services and non-core services

Reduce VPC requirements on worker nodes, reducing cost of CPK and OCP licenses allowing base & backup services to run on infra-nodes
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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