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Exclude File System Type

Would like to exclude per the file system type.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

IBM Storage Virtualize Plugin for vSphere features missing

The VMware plugin for Flash Systems missing the following operations which are publish in :https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248505.pdf - IBM FlashSystem and VMware Implementation and Best Practices Guide - Marking the hosts as flash I...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Allow multiple REST sessions per user

We wrote some checks for an external event management system that query several parameters and events from the storage arrays through REST API. As we have multiple checks and a clustered event management infrastructure we sometimes have 2 or more ...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Centralized include/exclude list for VM backups

Please provide a central location for managing include/excludes for individual VMs, like a client options set.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM-VE : better management of VM which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

The purpose of this request is to ask product management team two things:- to make available a report, for instance through the vCenter plug-in , that shows if virtual machines that are being protected by TSM-VE, have non cleaned snapshots. It wil...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

DBBackup to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is STILL no way to get database backups into the cloud directly. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which was rejected by AIX prod...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

mmdf needs an option to not reach out to all remote clients

On our very large environment, mmdf will take hours to run. This is apparently because the ESS cluster will reach out to our thousands of remote clients to verify accuracy of its statistics. Worse the entire system slows down while this is occurri...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Physical Usable capacity view in License Compliance Tab

Need the ability to display Physical Usable capacity in the Spectrum Control License Compliance Tab. Many customers that are virtualizing IBM storage behind San Volume Controller are licensed based on "Physical Usable" capacity so their licensed c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Storage Insights doesn't collect performance data often enough

Storage Insights can collect performance data no more frequently than every minute. Some storage devices, such as Spectrum Virtualize, collect data more frequently than that. Since some performance events take place on the scale of seconds, it is ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

Allow Multi-Target PPRC via CSM for HDS Controllers

We use Hitachi storage controllers with CSM as data mirroring software. In the case of a 3-sided controller migration, it is necessary to activate multitarget pprc. However, CSM currently does not allow this for storage controllers from other manu...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration