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Add product_id to display on gui Pools, Internal storage

I am looking at this site: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/873170 There is nothing there to tie my drives on my FS7300 running 8.5.0.10 to anything on that site. I am trying to use the GUI. I go into Pools, Internal Storage. I even tried to...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

select to get damaged containers in OC reports

The command QUERY DAMAGED <STGPOOLNAME> type=container is nice in order to see any damaged containers, however in Operations Center Reporting it is not possible to do the same command and there is no equivalent select statement available as ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

Create, modify & remove administative schedules

Create, modify & remove administative schedules from the Operation Center.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

success ful backup in database

So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add DB2 support for Spectrum CDM

Add support for DB2 in addition to Intercache, Oracle, SQL and HANA databases in the Spectrum CDM product please
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Support of HyperV VM tags to select resources to backup

Ability to select the resources to backup based on VM tags in a HyperV environment (same functionality as for VMware)
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SVC HyperSwap and FlashCopy restrictions

In theory HyperSwap seems more appealing than an SVC stretched cluster and have some advantages regarding cross-site traffic and in case of an site failure. But if you also plan to use the FlashCopy technology, there are some restrictions I have b...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting using VM Tagging

Customer would like to expand the SPP reporting by using VMware Tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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