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Host outages during SVC Codeupgrade: Missing Warning for misconfiguration and missing SVC check – command

All backend-paths of each mdisk needs to have the same Host-LUN-ID (SCSI-ID). In case of different IDs on different paths of the same mdisk, SVC does accept this without a warning. But during a SVC Code-Upgrade, this leads to a offline-SVC-pool-si...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow SLA associations to survive the move of associated guests from one hypervisor to another

possibility to migrate VM's between different vCenter systems. In this case today SPP track this as a new VM, but it is not a new VM it's the same as before.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSnap needs to be more resilient for out of storage space scenarios

If vSnap storage runs out of space, the underlying zfs filesystem should be resilient enough to stop and restart without inconsistencies once additional storage is added.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

z/VM support on CSM

Currently z/VM support is managed only via GDPS using xDR proxies (SA MP). We are running lot of applications on zVM but the binaries for z/Linux on IBM disk is minimal and the application data is from a different storage hardware and only for the...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale REST API Endpoint for mmafmconfig

We need a way that the Spectrum Scale REST API exposes the mmafmconfig command. In particular the mmafmconfig enable <fileset> is important for us.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SVC 2145-DH8 Use IMM port for remote access/control

SVC Nodes are commonly installed in multiple Data Centers, not all Data Centers have a support personnel at all times, and in certain circumstances the SVC Nodes require physical access in order to Reboot the Nodes. Currently the IMM Port of the S...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Include VOLSER information in Cognos Reporting for Spectrum Control

On version 5.3.x and previous versions of Spectrum Control, VOLSER data for DS8000 arrays was present in Cognos using the Storage Volume Name. In 5.4.x, the output of Storage Volume Name is different (using the CKD volume name); the VOLSER informa...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Identify individual VM backup sessions during a SLA backup

Once a SLA is running, it would be nice to see in a list which VM's completed the backup successfully, which failed, which are running and which will run, to help monitor and take appropriate actions if needed.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Option to select files to restore from a directory tree view

SPP to allow file-level restore not just by searching for files or folder, but also by expanding a directory tree to input multiple selections
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Decommission VM confirmation with filespace name

When decommission is run for example:DECOMMISSION VM VMNAME 999 NAMETYPE=FSID No confirmation of what filespace/vmname is shown. The confirmation message:ANR3392W DECOMMISSION VM: This command will decommission the specified virtual machine. The a...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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