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    SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

    In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

    Add support for NFS v4 on vSnap Servers to close Vulnerabilities issues caused by NFS v3

    Customer is having SPP 10.1.7 and Security team runs multiple Vulnerability Scan multiple times a year and they have identified vulnerability on vSnap servers related to NFS version. Current NFS version of the vSnap file system is V3. Can we inclu...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add Azure native VM snapshots support to SPP

    As of March 2021 SPP on Azure is capable to backup some DBs on Azure, but not VMson Azure.Add support for VMs will give SPP on Azure similar functionality comparing to SPP on premise
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Ability to add a second NTP server on TS7700

    Have the ability to configure a second NTP server on TS7700 to improve resiliency, operational stability, and compliance while reducing infrastructure risk.
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    Add retry logic to increase resilience when there is a short-duration DNS outage

    The current version of the system will result in a job failure when there is a short-duration DNS outage. The current code will result in a job failure when this happens as there apparently is no logic to retry a failed DNS operation. This has led...
    5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    GUI should be quick to load overview pages, and defer the output of slow commands

    F.ex. on the GUI "pools" page, we're experiencing several minute loading time on large systems. It should not be acceptable that it takes this long to load any of the pages, particularly not the initial overview pages. Rather the GUI should only s...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Please, support to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media](LTO) to another NAS storage system

    Why is it useful? : A common-sense solution for backup restoration is achieved with the combination of NAS storage, ISPs, and tape media.Who would benefit from it? : Nearly all users operating tape backups on NAS storage with a cluster configurati...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Improve DIO on sparse files to avoid E-HOLE error

    The customer is using Db2 pureScale and allocates tablespace using preallocation.But there are enormous performance issue was caused by the DIO thrashing ( frequent switching back and forth between DIO and Buffered IO ) due to E_HOLE errors.We ana...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    DS8000 SGC Monitoring, Reporting and Management with Manual and Auto Control

    We are utilizing Safeguarded Copy across all of our Production environments. As the capability grows, so do the requirements in terms of capacity and performance. Regarding changes in capacity needs based on host activity or change in algorithm of...
    about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    postgreSQL Support

    PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases. We see this requirement in RFIs.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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