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Moving/VMotioning a VM should reset the tagging automatically.

This is a manual process but SP4VE is touted as an enterprise solution, so this should be automatically addressed. We do NOT use the plugin and ARE using tagging. We have 2 ESX environments each associated with a separate TSM instance. When utiliz...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Snapshot directory to show valid creation date

When we do ls -l on the .snapshots directory from NFS client, or GPFS client.We see strange dates which are not related to the snapshots : he dates on the snapshots directories look strange. [root@ems4 @GMT-2023.12.26-02.00.55]# mmlssnapshot gpfsO...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Snapshot policy to check number of snapashots

Sometimes there is a problem when the policy try to create snapshot - like mmlssnapshot timeout - and this skip the creation of snapshots - and also deletion of the old snapshot by policy- this means that the older snapshot will not be delete by t...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

SCDM support for KVM

Many customers are using KVM hypervisor in their Oracle environments because of Oracle licensing rules. Thus, having SCDM supporting KVM virtualized servers will open new opportunities.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Metadata only Replication for Spectrum Protect

Entering this request on behalf of Kroger Company Provide the ability on the Spectrum Protect Server to Replicate Meta Data only to an alternate Spectrum Protect Server located at a secondary site used as a Disaster Recovery site.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Volume format should be faster or invisible to the user

Feedback from a user group meeting: On the CLI, the mkvolume command to create a new volume will always create an empty volume. No exceptions. There is no option to do otherwise so I know my volumes will always be created zeroed, which is great fo...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Less tape-commits with server-processes like Backup Stg, Migration and Reclamation to improve throuput

TSM does a tape-commit (and thus a time-consuming backhitch on the tape drive) every time the backup-date, the nodename, the filespace or even the managementclass within a single filespaces of a single node changes. This is regardless of / precede...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Units of Measurements in Storage Data to be displayed in Base 10

It would be greatly helpful for the Resource Unit Billing teams and IBM user group to see the option of selecting the Storage Metrics display using Base 10, in addition to Base 2 that currently exist.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

Operation Center Anomaly Reporting Improvement

Right the anomaly reporting of OC is very basic and not very usefull. There is no good way to export it and create a daily list of client nodes with anomalies and what type of anomalies are those. We would like to be able: Generate a daily spreads...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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