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    PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tape

    SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tapeHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

    more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

    The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    Properly manage Archive Mode flag in TS1150/TS1155 tape drives

    The IBM TS1150 and TS1155 Enterprise tape drives has a configuration setting called Archive Mode [1] which controls whether archive mode unthread (also called low tension refresh) should be performed on tape unload. In recent firmwares [2] the def...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

    General group alert thresholds should have the option of selecting aggregation or individual object

    We require an alert definition for a specific scenario. The alert should trigger when the cumulative write data rate of HyperSwap volumes exceeds 2000MB/s. We cannot set the alert on the Pool component because the pool also contains non-HyperSwap ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

    Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Migration of Data/Backups between VSnaps

    In backup operations, it is becoming increasingly apparent that existing backup jobs are growing larger and larger, reaching the limits of a VSNAP. Adding new VSNAPs only helps new backup jobs or distributes existing backups to different VSNAPs. A...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Protocols SMB online update support

    With Spectrum Scale Protocols 5.0, SMB Update node by node should be possible online without downtime/business impact.Actually this is not possible.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

    Backup of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments

    Currently there is no support for backups of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments with TSM/ISP4VE (which is stated in the documentation). Due to the fact that some customers require encryption for their VMware environments, support for the new (V6.5...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Add a Utility node with FC cards

    Add a Utility node with fc cards, so we can deliver a full IBM Storage solution with IBM Storage Archive, without having to involve Power brand.A utility node with enogh memory and fc card would fulfil this gap in our options when building a Scale...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 3 Planned for future release

    Hardware snapshot for VMware backups

    We use SP for VE for backing up VMs and it works great for normal sized VMs.For VMs with big disks and high IO there is a performance penalty when there exists a vmware snapshot. The penalty is even bigger when removing the vmware snapshot and con...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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