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    Backups of k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS

    We need to be able to protect k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS as that is going to drive our business.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add root cause Db2 messages to job log in SPP

    When a DB2 restore job in SPP fails, the DB2 message including the root cause of this failure is not shown in the job log. And therefore not on the ISPP gui itself. For finding the cause why the job failed, you need to logon to the ISPP server, di...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    add --auto-inode-limit for independent filesets

    In Storage Scale 5.1.4 mmcrfs/mmchfs introduced the --(no)auto-inode-limit switches. Unfortunately this only works for whole filesystems and cannot be finetuned for individual (independent) filesets. There are situations where you have a mixed env...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Replication failures caused by decommissioned filespaces (virtual machines) are not sufficiently visible

    In an environment where you have cross-replicating Spectrum Protect servers and where you decommission a virtual machine, subsequent replications (replicate node commands) will fail if there remains unreplicated data on one of the servers.Replicat...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    SPP - Option for Non-memory Snapshot

    By default SPP always takes a memory snapshot.Although SPP has the option to disable VSS (Quiesced Snapshot), it doesn not have the option to disable a memory snapshot.We NEED the option to disable memory snapshot for some VMs which cannot be snap...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Operation Center Client Deployment - not able to schedule client updates if a single server failed receiving update packages

    In the OC in the client deployment section you can schedule the client updates, however this scheduling part is only "unlocked" if the pushing of client packages to all spoke servers has run error free for all servers.So the command "REFRESH PKG S...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Please increase the maximum value for the -tcpw option

    The -tcpw option of the SP BA client allows to set the send buffer size but unfortunately only to a maximum of 2048 kB. In our use case (backup over WAN with RTT=9.73ms) we get a transfer rate of only 200MiB/s with this maximum (see ticket TS02029...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Add monitoring of *_free_memory on io groups

    Hello, it would be nice to have monitoring of *_free_memory on SVC/FlashSystem. remote_copy_free_memorymirroring_free_memoryflash_copy_free_memory This would help with monitoring of remaining memory left for bitmap copies. Setting up alert policy ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

    Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Allow IBM Flashsystems to have a trash bin to recover deleted volumes

    Create a trash bin on SpecV to allow customer to recover deleted volumes by mistake with an auto-delete parameter after X days
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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