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Adding Support for Multi Target PPRC in CSM for Hitachi VSP5000 Systems

We use in our Datacenter for migration last year multi target concept to migrate our old vsp to new one and use Hittachi TrueCopy and CSM to do that. We see that also Multitarget PPRC are working as expectetd but we missed the complete support of ...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Openshift-image-registry to be Included in Backup

Fusion UI does not display the namespace openshift-image-registry which is required during Recovery of Full Cluster.
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect scheduler - better handling MISSED Event

We're struggling in meeting the SLA because of MISSED backup. After investigation most of the missed backup we have here is hourly backup schedules being missed because a FULL backup or INCR backup is running for that same client node. Would it be...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

DS8000 Dynamic Volume Expansion and Copy Services.

I want the ability to continue to use Dynamic Volume Expansion even while my DS8886 DASD Volumes are currently in a Copy Services (GC,FC,MM) session. You have effectively removed Dynamic Volume Expansion from ever being used again if involved in a...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Proxy and vSnap on Power Linux

Require support for Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap server and VADP Proxy on Linux based on Power servers.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Protocols SMB online update support

With Spectrum Scale Protocols 5.0, SMB Update node by node should be possible online without downtime/business impact.Actually this is not possible.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backup

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backupWe need an option to change expiration date for already taken backup to desired value. For example to change it to expire in 1 year instead of 1 month with which it was taken.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Request for Possible improvement in SP4VE GUI

In the GUI via WEB of SP4VE, when you access to perform a restore, the different datastorages appear where each machine that we have in backup to be able to do restores is located inside. The problem is that there is no search engine to search for...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Functionality already exists

Spectrum Scale Toolkit support for separated admin and daemon network

Due to security, some clients have different IPs for daemon and for admin network, in a Spectrum Scale Cluster, and current version of Toolkit does not support different networks.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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