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Expand and reduce DRAID / RAID

We should be able to grow or shrink an existing RAID by any rational number of disks. At each operation, there would have to be data movement and array rebuilds. Relocate the first chunk, then rebuild those stripes based on the new geometry (and r...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Trend Analysis where we can identify sites that continue to have lag time issues

This request came from CSP case = TS008545343 via client We have a business need to provide trend analysis on approximately 20 sites like SOCMGM that use replication to their respective DR sites. Below is a sample of what we run daily but this is ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SPP GUI integrated in SP OC

if SPP Vsnap will have a direct integration with SP, GUIs should also be integrated. This integration could be show as only one product with different features.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow for the update of CSM versions without using DSCLI interface.

Many clients use the DSCLI version built into the HMC GUI. Currently if you would like to upgrade the version of CSM you are required to install the DS8KDSCLI on a third server to facilitate the upgrade. This defeats part of the reason of using th...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Support Soft-RoCE drivers

As 100/200 Gigabit RoCE technologies mature, not all clients are able to leverage the same "hard" RoCE HBAs and associated drivers such as Mellanox, which is the currently supported device driver. This request recognizes there are some HBAs that m...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Add machine serial number to TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary

TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary page has many useful information, including the VE hardware serial number, but it is missing the serial numbers of other components of the TS7700 cluster. Adding the serial numbers of the other components, which are ...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

More flexibility in assigning rights to administrators

In large/complex environments with multiple people having administrative access to the Spectrum Protect server, it is desirable to be able to have better granularity on the rights assigned to each person/login or group. This is in order to be able...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms.

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms. ANE4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC=rc mode=full_or_incr, target node name='target_node_name', data ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management missing RHEL 8 support

Currently Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.13 does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Application archive logs included in copy operations

SPP can protect both databases and its archive logs. Those backups are stored on a vSnap, so the customer can restore both of them if they need. If the customer wants to run a copy operation of those backups to a Cloud Object Storage, for example,...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration