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Support for GFS2 file systems

Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

File Indexing numbers

Need to add option to get current utilization of file indexing numbers as we have limit in SPP
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TS7700 and VEHSTATS tool - ORDERALL member

Today, for each new version of VEHSTATS tool, the customer have to manually customize a new ORDERALL member which is time consuming (ORDERALL member is around 1200 lines today), fastidious, with a high risk of errors.The customer wish to have the ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operation Centre export/import custom Report

Spectrum Protect Operations Manager keeps the custom report in the hub server in a scratch table. When moving the hub to another server there is no easy way of exporting and importing into another hub server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

select more than 20 nodes (VM's) per vCenter for Backup

In the vCenter plugin extension we can select only 20 VM's. If we select more, we will get an error, that only 20 are possible in one backup. In some cases (failed backups) we need to restart more than 20 VMs from the vCenter GUI.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Client is using single-node IBM Spectrum Archive EE(LTFSEE)/IBM Spectrum Scale(GPFS) cluster on RHEL 7.9 x86_64. The current version of LTFSEE is at 1.3.2.4. Client wants to relocate the *exsisting* server to other location/other network so that IP and hostname of the server needs to be changed. Local support team has asked the procedure to adapt LTFSEE for the changed IP and hostname to GDL LTFS development by LTFS RTC item #86989. Development has answered that there is no procedure to do it as of now. The server relocation is sometimes required with the relocation of customer’s server room or various reasons. Customer strongly needs the verified procedure and/or utility on LTFSEE to adapt IP/hostname change of the server asap. Note: GPFS has such procedure. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.8?topic=topics-changing-ip-addresses-host-names-cluster-nodes

The verified procedure and/or utility on LTFSEE to adapt IP/hostname change of the server asap.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Report power redundancy failure on a ESS Data Server or ESS Protocol Node

Currently, the GUI neither mmhealth report a power redundancy failure if power cord is unplugged or power is lost at one of the PSUs. The GUI uses ipmitool rvitals as an internal report were PSU appears as ok but PSU fan rpm are reduced. The GUI s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

tape overwrite function for copy-container storage pools

Please implement a way to overwrite a tape in a container-copy storage pool. In sequential pools you could just use the "move data" command for this and move the data from one tape to another without losing temporary copy coverage or messing with ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Utilize NetApp Snapshots for Spectrum Protect Plus backups

Please investigate allowing Spectrum Protect Plus to perform an array-based Snapshot on NetApp systems for VMware vSphere backups. The software could trigger vSphere snapshots on the VMs in a datastore to remove the write lock from the VMDK and ca...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 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

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