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Add path status in Overview Screen Page

In IBM Copy Service Manager It's possible add path status in Overview Screen Page?? We monitoring Overview page for potential issues of session, server connection, but we don't see path status, that is visible only in a specific screen
almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

TPC-R integration with VMware SRA for SRM

I'm submitting on behalf of a customer who's using TPC-R to manage replication between multiple Storwize/SVC systems and supporting IBM i, AIX, Windows and VMware hosts. For VMware, they're using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to automate failover. W...
over 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

VMware VM I/O Performance data should be available

Today TPC/VSC offers agentless integration with VMware ESX, however no performance data, other than the SAN volumes or ports that the ESX server is using are recorded. I would like to see TPC record basic virtual machine I/O performance data for V...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Future consideration

Allow grouping of statistics by DS8000 internal resources for performance reporting

Provide the ability to group and subset performance statistics for the DS8000 based on the internal configuration of the disk subsystem. Metrics which could be used for grouping and subsetting would be: - Rank statistics : device adapter, tier, DD...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

ELB not managed by TPC/R

For an effective and convenient management of a DS8000 replication environment, it would be very useful if TPC-R could manage ELB timeout for every LCU/LSS in a MM/MGM environment. In fact, a clear display of this parameter for the session (e.g. t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

remote awareness of TPC-R sessions

When a storage device needs to be deleted from the standby server, the standby needs to be made active, and the device deleted, then returned to the standby state. The additional steps places risk on the TPC-R database. The standby database should...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Data Manager reports should recognize GPFS & VMFS as a cluster

The report Data Manager > Reporting > TPC-wide Storage Space > File System Space > By cluster does not show GPFS clusters or VMware ESX clusters as a cluster. They are shown under By Computer. As a result, the file space in /VMFS (ESX ...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration