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Spectrum Protect Plus for PowerVM

Backup Virtual Machines from IBM PowerVM virtualization
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 7.0 VM

According to the support page, VMware ESX and ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x are supported but not ESXi 7.0. IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platformshttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Adaptive inhibit reclaim schedule

The inhibit reclaim schedule today is static. When workload is increasing or shifting over time, reclamation might occur, when physical tape drives would be better used for premigration tasks. An adaptive reclamation algorithm taking workload into...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Spacereservation in compressed pools

In systems with with Flashmodules and compression always on there should be a integrated process to reserve some space for emergency release. As these systems are designed for overprovisioning this is a lack of security.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

In clustered (HA) environments, Spectrum Protect should support installing interim fixes without downtime

We are using Spectrum Product for Data Retention in a document centric application step, that serves access to contract statements over the web in an always on environment. Maintenance (major version or scheduled FP upgrade) is expected to be deli...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Have an API to communicate with Storage Insights

We want to integrate Storage Insights alerts into our monitoring tool. Should be able to communicate with Storage Insights through an API to receive alerts etc. and have them processed by our monitoring tool.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

SpVirt cluster-wide throttle definitions

Host throttling operates at the node level and therefore applies only to the volumes in that IO group. Need to be able to define a cluster-wide throttle.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Replicate VSNAP SQL log backups

A job of type "Replication" was triggered and ended with failed status: "CTGGA0289 Skipping volume spp_1056_2111_1719AE68699 because there are no new snapshots since last backup". However, the job replicated the snapshot volume that stores the SQL...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Scale GUI Dashboard Nodes by Latency

Add the ability to "Cherry Pick" and display in the Scale GUI the top nodes by latency. This could be on the statistics widget or a new widget. Add the granularity of client nodes, NSD nodes, nodes by nodeclass XYZ, or custom picked nodes. Additio...
almost 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI Statistics Save, Generate report, and Forward Selections

Provide the ability in the Scale GUI Statistics monitoring page to save custom settings for easy re-use and ability to forward these selections to the Dashboard page for use in a monitoring widget. There are pre-set statistics monitoring selection...
almost 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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