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parallel SAP HANA Log Backup of HDBBackint to two destinations

customer wants to change the way HDBackint works with two destinations.'REDOLOG_COPIES 2' is slower than'REDOLOG_COPIES 1', because of the way how the logs are being processedby hdbbackint:.hdbbackint uses one thread for reading a data buffer from...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale VMWare ESX V7 Support

Hallo,we plan to migrate our SAS-Grid Cluster to a VMWare based Plattform. These Platform is installed with ESX Version 7.0 U2. But currently scale support only V6.x.This gap stop our Migrationsplans currently. With the introduction ov Version 7 E...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Selectable location for Cloud instance (compliancy with regulations - showstopper to use SI)

Banking customer requires their Storage Insights instance to be hosted in Europe. If not, they are not allowed to use Storage Insights. Customer would therefore also have to be able to select the location for their instance.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

DS8XXXX Improve How Fibre Channel Port Location is Displayed in GUI

Under a previous RFE it was requested to add in the physical location of an IO Port to the New DS8 GUI in the Fibre Channel Ports view:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=121398 In the old GUI when we went to c...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Port time blocked percentage metric

Request to get the metric "Port time blocked percentage" added into Storage Insights available metrics to monitor. This metric is a calculated value available in regular iostats and L3/dev indicate this value is calculated as :Time Blocked Percent...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

additional status "MAINTENANCE" for drives and paths

Drives and paths only the both status' ONLINE and OFFLINE. An additional one "MAINTENANCE" or "OFFLINE asap" would be extremely useful for the preparation of maintenance (especially unplanned due to an error) to get a library free of accesses.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

need tape disaster recovery ability for Spectrum Protect Plus

Enable Spectrum Protect to be a disaster recovery target for Spectrum Protect Plus.This would provide tape based disaster recovery of Spectrum Protect Plus.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Add VMware Tape support to ISP Server

Today ISP is supported as an ESX Guest but with a carve out for tape.https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546#VMware%20ESX%20Guest Historically this was due to the ESX 5.x limitation that explicitly did not support tape. VMware h...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration