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CSM Co-existance with lower-level or different level CSM.

2. The ability for CSM software to co-exist with a lower-level or different-level CSM software in a CSM configuration where they are sharing one or the same CSM database.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Virtualize/SVC support for Dell EMC VPLEX backend

Customer plans to use IBM SVC as a hub for storages, provided by other vendors, including competitors. Quite a few of the storages are hidden behind VPLEX virtualization and thus can not be virtualized by SVC/Storwize family. It limits the mobilit...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

OC License History

OC already has reports from FrontEnd and BackEnd licensing, however many customers would like to be able to track the historical consumption of their licenses, to allow a better forecast of how much they have been using.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Requesting RHEL9.x support for Spectrum Control

Since you support RHEL7 (which is EoL now) and RHEL8 it would only be logic to also support RHEL9.x (which was released over 2 years ago). As we have tons of servers now migrating directly from RHEL7 to RHEL9 the support for it would be tremendous...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Functionality already exists

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

SPP File restore selection and Progress

SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP: NAT connection trough dedicated vLAN

SPP server has configured NAT with additional 3 network IP's. The same vLAN's are configured in the vSNAP server + proxy combo (IBM appliance).During Backup/Restore operation SPP communicate with client with correct IP (different than managment). ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

DRM Manager should support Container Pool

DRM must support container pool.There is no information for container pool in the drm planfile. We need information which offsite/onsite tapes we need to recover container pools. We can checkout the tapes with drm commands but have no information ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Throttle option for SCSI UNMAP to backend mdisk

Request for Spectrum Virtualize software ability to control the rate of SCSI UNMAP workload sent to backend mdisks. When vdisk remove is executed on non-DRP pool, the rate of UNMAP commands to backend appear unlimited and need to have ability to c...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Create backupset from directory container stgpool

Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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