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SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Directory Container Erasure Coding

I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus User Experience Enhancements

User enhancement requests for Spectrum Protect Plus Make the dashboard interactive i.e. ability to drill down into the protection summary, the unprotected summary, failed jobs and running jobs. Make the dashboard customisable. All data accessible ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

gpfs enhance NFS performance in chip design domain

we expect GPFS to enhance NFS performance to accommodate small file scenarios in the chip design domain to beat netapp
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

fileset QoS distinguish read and write

we expect fileset QoS distinguish read and write to enhance the flexibility of QoS, also expect metadata support qos
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

add a button on the policys page for email testing

when you set up policys for alerts, there is no way to test to make sure it works..we use ops genie and it would be nice to confirm it is working
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow a single SPP server instance to backup/restore more than 2 billion files

This RFE is to remove the current limitation of ~2 billion files to be indexed for backup and restore operations on a single SPP server.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

vdisk default caching IOgrp assignment

Hi, While creating vdisk, Caching IOGRP assignment is automatic in a cluster containing more than 1 IOgrp. e.g. When vdisk is created on pool1 located on IOG1, its caching IOgrp by default should go to IOG1 maintaing local affinity in order to avo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SPP M365 Backup via Proxy

Several clients are enforcing the usage of a client provided HTTP/HTTPS proxy server to grant systems access to the Internet. In such case the IP network traffic is not routed through the default gateway. That is the reason why a client proxy need...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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