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Being that the Distributed AG is a collection of multiple AAG's, my initial thoughts are that each AAG would be configured per the guide with a unique set of nodenames (ALWAYSONODENAME, TDP nodenames, and, if performing VSS backups, B/A Client nod...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Container Mode support for embedded accessers

with the new AWS S3 Object Lock functionality we're opening tons of new use-cases to COS. this is great! unfortunately S3 Object Lock is only supported on container modes, not vault modes. smaller COS systems with embedded accesser configs are lim...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

IBM Spetcrum Protect or SPP cross-hypervisor restore for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure)

Cross-hypervisor restore feature for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure) is a feature already supported in competitor solutions ie Commvault .
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Allow for the update of CSM versions without using DSCLI interface.

Many clients use the DSCLI version built into the HMC GUI. Currently if you would like to upgrade the version of CSM you are required to install the DS8KDSCLI on a third server to facilitate the upgrade. This defeats part of the reason of using th...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Preventive Function to corrupt a volume as flashcopy target if the volume is scsi reserved

If a volume is mounted and used by a OS and V7000 execute flashcopy to the volume as target, the volume is corrupted by occurring inconsistent with filesystem on the OS. The our client strongly request an optional function to prevent the situation...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Offer options for excluding the accumulation of some messages related to Safeguarded Copies taken off the GM Secondary in the DSGUI Events

I currently have no visibility on events that occurred more than 3 hours ago on my primary site DS8950F because of a flood of informative " Remote Relationship State Changed" caused by the CGPAUSE needed for the SGC process taking place at seconda...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Externally connect to Management switch to remote support HCI

A customer asks to have the chance to externally connect to the internal switches of Spectum Fusion HCI to remote support the appliance in case Red Hat OCP doesn’t work because two master nodes failed or an administrator blocked the Red Hat OCP ma...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Currency Support for spectrum protect for Snapshot

We missing the Support of Spectrum Protect for Snapshot on rhel7.6 x86_64 Systems. Today the prereq checker complain that only 7.5 are supported. We use the snapshot function for db2 here.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release

Safeguard Copy to S3 storage

Allow the ability to schedule safeguard copies off site to S3 storage either on another platform or in the cloud.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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