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    ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

    In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Needs more information

    SAP HANA setup for multiple backup retentions (monthly, yearly and so on)

    When customers need multiple retentions for SAP HANA, they need to use the script provided by IBM to temporarily change to a new UTL, or point a single different stanza in HANAs cockpint, which could put monthly backups in jeopardy since they will...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

    Graphical topology view VM -> datstore -> ESX -> Storage lun -> IBM FS9500 array.

    vCenter, Hosts, and Virtual Machines associated can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu table. If user clicks on a specific virtual machine, then under “Internal/Virtual Machine/ Related resources” panel it gives details about HBA, Driv...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    IBM SPP: Allow VADP/VSNAP deployment with SSH keys instead of username/password

    Hello, VADP and VSNAP Deployment require that you enter a OS username and password for ssh communication. Username and password authentication is not very secure therefore any sane/larger customer will only allow ssh-keys for authentication. Pleas...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Improvement of modifying NFSv4 ACLs

    Hi,modifications on NFSv4 ACLs are very slow, especially if one modify pathes recursively with many files and subfolders (this could takes days on our system!). E.g. to add an additional ACL to a tree one has to read first the ACLs from the file b...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Implementing other message codes for SNMP trap 221

    The client configuration is using DS8900 with Safe Guarded Copy At the moment when they see an SNMP trap trigger for trap 221 they only receive Message Code 10, which is telling them it's already removing space. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    Increase number of extents per cluster

    Currently a system with extent size of 1 GiB does only support a managed capacity of 4 PiB. We need more scalability without using a larger extent size, e.g. managed capacity of 8 PiB with an extent size of 1 GiB.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

    We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Data Retention should be able to delete Copy Storage Pool Volumes

    In Spectrum Protect Data Retention it is not possible to delete any data manually, which is the key functionality of the product.In case of duplicating the data stored (i.e. on tape) we use Copy Storage Pools. To allow an exchange of the underlyin...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Support for Object Lock on IBM Ceph as an object target for Commvault

    Testing required for object lock with Commvault using Ceph as the object target. Customer requirement for capacity of approx 2.6PB Ceph system with support for immutability.
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 2 Submitted

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