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Export performance or support data capability for a group of devices

A SI user should be able to collect support data for a group of devices that are configured under a group.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

backup hyper-v 2012 the backup is work but we have error 12

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 i want to backup only two vritual machines with linux...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

TS7700 should have different grid ports for Deferred work vs. sync & remote mounts

We have a multiple site TS7700 configuration with multiple grids in each location. The majority of our cross site workload is deferred. However, we have some critical workloads that we need to sync across the distance. An example of this is the HS...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TSM repository server is not supported as catalog backup target for SPP+ (enable catalog backup to repository server)

Using the SPP+ gui you can select a TSM repository server as a target for catalog backup for SPP+. I have opened a call with IBM support (TS013178083) because at 10.1.14-217 release at least of SPP+ no matter how you configure the TSM S3 repositor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Integrity control for stored datas on vsnap

Set up an integrity check to validate that the data that was copied to the vsnap server are valid.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM -Change virtual restore SCSI controller from VMware LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual

SCDM RFE - Currently, when SCDM performs restores of the virtual environment, it creates a SCSI controller in the vCenter that is set to LSI Logic SAS. The request is to change the SCSI controller from LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Skip recall when files are open()ed with O_TRUNC

Adding this feature it would prevent many unnecessary recalls. As recalls from tape are an expensive operation it would improve the performance of the filesystem.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect should support Linux GFS2 filesystem

GFS2 is the standard filesystem used by Red Hat clusters for concurrent storage. It's in the same class of filesystem storage as GPFS (Spectrum Scale)
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Metadata Search for Repository backups

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs the ability to keep track of VMware metadata for backups once a a backup is moved off to a repository or S3 location. Not having the ability search for metadata (file search) on long term repository backups defeat s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM Co-existance with lower-level or different level CSM.

2. The ability for CSM software to co-exist with a lower-level or different-level CSM software in a CSM configuration where they are sharing one or the same CSM database.
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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