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VM's Removing from SLA

We have identified and issue where VM's are automatically removing from SLA due to xyz reason and got to know this is as per design. So we should have some info report where we can see how many VM's removed automatically from SLA after last backup...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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

Shorten the pending IO time to 5-30s during node expel

When node in ECE cluster was expelled from cluster, the IO pending time is long as 1-3 minutes. Some of applications failure due to long pending time,especial to OLTP or AI training jobs. Competitors which using traditional dual-controllers mode c...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Add ability to create long term snapshot of TSM for VE data

At present, TSM for VE is suitable for storing short to medium term data. Where regulatory type backups such as 1-7 year retention backups are required, a separate node using the traditional Backup Archive Client needs to be set up to perform this...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Forecast of remaining Restore Duration

Dynamically get a Forecast by spectrum protect Server of the remaining Restore Duration for Restores of Databases and File Restore
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

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

Support https natively on S3 objects in protocol nodes

This RFE is opened in behalf of General Motors. Vendors are required to support secure http i.e https for Object Store as one of the protocols provided in Spectrum Scale protocol nodes. Currently the product does not support https.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Option to update server certificate via command line

Official CA server certificates have to be exchanged every year. There should be a method, other than the GUI, to replace these certificates automatically (via ansible, puppet, etc.). Therefore a command line option (scp) is needed!
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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

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