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Enable SPP Oracle log backup logging

While roll forwarding a oracle DB when restoring, the restore suddenly stopped, because a log file was not provided. Unfortunately, in the logs for the log backup to vSnap, you cannot see which log files were backed up and if everything was succes...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Metro DR and Regional DR for Fusion SDS (Fusion Data Foundation) without external IBM Ceph dependency

Our customer Euro Information is a very large banking company. They are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment with their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several datacenters. This means using Metro DR with synchronous...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Allow global Filter/search across entire SI Instance

When I have multiple devices in my environment, I need a quick way to drill down to what device is of immediate concern. If I get CRC errors from a WWPN, I need to search my SI instance for which array is presenting that WWPN. If I need to grow a ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Increase the published limts on stored OBJECTS for DAS/HPO (NooBaa)

The published limits of DAS/HPO do not meet the enterprise requirements of Millennium Partners. The client has requested the following improvements. The IBM Spectrum Scale DAS supports the following scaling options: Up to 10 TB single object size ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Running jobs on an SLA consecutively

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run all jobs on a schedule. When replicating, copying or archiving a backup data we need to set a time to the job.But sometimes backups take more time than usual and in that case replication and/or copy job fails...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Decomission of VM

We are waiting for documemtation on how Decomission of VMs work in SPP, Case number TS0008726 Typically we do see that customer want to do one of 3 things (in order of most common) when a VM is decomissioned:Store VM for a certain time, for exampl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ganesha - Event 1 could not be processed for fd 5 rc I/O error , report the client that abuse the Ganesha, monitor that error and have action

When Ganesha server hit this error - the NFS server just hang , there is no ip failover, or restart of the NFS server: epoch 001103c9 : gpfs.ganesha.nfsd-1492239[fsal_up_0.48] GPFSFSAL_UP_Thread :FSAL_UP :WARN :Event 1 could not be processed for f...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Operations Center: Automatic PMR Creation and Support Bundle Upload

Automated open/creation of PMR from Spectrum Protect Operations Center and upload of Support Data Collection Bundle
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

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