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Capacity on demand enhancement

Today's design of TS7770 Capacity on demand with FC 5262 and 5263 is not flexible enough as it is not aligned with the hardware capacity. E.g. in a six-drawer configuration the cache capacity is 472 TB but only 400 TB can be enabled by above FCs. ...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 5 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Backup of an Individual VM in an SLA Policy

Customer requires the ability to backup an individual VM in an SLA.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

Allow IBMi to backup to Spectrum Protect (again)

IBMi used to be able to backup using a TSM client to a TSM/Spectrum Protect Server.With IBM Protectier TS7650 being removed, our IBM i core banking environment no longer has a disk-based BRMS VTL to backup to.We have IBM Spectrum Protect running a...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

IBM's SRA lacks functionality HP does offer

Volume mapping lost after failover and failback using VMWare SRM
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Need ability to rebalance volume extents when adding more MDisks to an existing storage pool

When adding MDisks to an existing storage pool for SWV7K or SVC we do not automatically rebalance the extents volumes' are using from the pool thus we get hotspots and imbalance in utilization. We have had request to add this to SVC since 2003 and...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 15 Delivered

Augmenting storage controller code/capability to erase disk data satisfying regulatory requirements

With increasingly strict compliance by Reserve Bank Of India [similar central bank in other countries], banks need to mandate that any storage media leaving their premise does not carry any data. Therefore clients want to ensure data is erased com...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Tape support for IBM Storage Defender Data Protect

Allow Defender Data Protect to use tapes as a target for backup storage. Many customers wants to use tape for long term retentions and in some cases are obligated to do tape for compliance reasons.
10 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Delivered

Automating the management of certificates on devices

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

CSM - Change dual access control options

We would like to have the option to enable dual access control for different operations and different user groups.
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Delivered

snapdiff option for clustered ontap (netapp)

HelloWe have new Netapp filers in prodcution since 2 months and these use the new clustered ontap version (8.2). I have opened a PMR because the snapdiff option didn't work on these filers and the support told me that snapdiff was only possible on...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 11 Delivered

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