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IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to leverage existing storage replication relationships

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management for SAP/HANA environment
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

To include support of remote CES Object Clusters

Currently, The Official Spectrum Scale Documentation states the following main points.• This setup(Remote Clusters) cannot be used for Object or iSCSI services.• The storage cluster must not have any protocol nodes (CES must be disabled). https://...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP

Ability to Replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP, not only new backups that happens after the replication is setup (as happen today).
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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

Increase vmmaxvirtualdisks limit

Increase the maximum supported disk size (Vmmaxvirtualdisks option) to current available limit. In version 8.1.10 the maximum is 8TB but the maximum vmdk size in cSphere 6.7 is 64TB.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Protection copy for On-Premise Cloud Containers

On Premise Storage like Cloud Object Storage (COS) and other vendor solutions gives the ability, to use modern data protection with on premise cloud storage pools. In the age of cyber crime and ransomware, it is very important and a business requi...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux).

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux). As stated in TS003354444 it does not work though we follow the instructions in "https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/c_clu...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly Currently we need to create with multiple SLA for different schedule of daily, weekly, monthly.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Test ISPP with Linux 8.5

For ISPP server we have currently Linux version of 7.X and Linux team is planning to upgrade to RedHat Linux version 8.5 and they cant go for 8.4 as it has security vulnerability Please advice correct version of ISPP which is compatible with for L...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Multiple Recovery Volumes from same SGC Backup volume

The ability to have multiple R (Recovery) Volumes from the same B (Backup) volumes would support where one R volume is presented to infrastructure for forensic analysis and cleaning etc., and another R volume from the same B source presented to ot...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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