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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.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Eliminate manual recompiles of gpfs.gplbin due to kernel changes

It should not be necessary for customers to manually recompile gpfs.gplbin every time the kernel is updated. Two possible approaches seem to be: * kmod, which would remove the need to recompile the module as long as the kABI remains stable. kABI-t...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Planned for future release

Support SMB Persistent Handles

Hi, When trying to copy files using rsync via SMB shares exported by Spectrum Scale, we are experiencing errors after session disconnection\ces node failovers. currently, scale does not provide persistent\durable file handles. we are kindly asking...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 - Customer request 3rd or 4th level power redundancy within the frame - critical outage occurred because building power maintenance left the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. Without addtional redundancy, the box came down.

Critical outage occurred. Building power maintenance being performed turning off one power leg leaving the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. The box ultimately came down, having a 3rd of 4th PDU would've allowed this frame to stay pow...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Add support for client encryption on deduplicated data

Support of client specified encryption (password) is needed for client side deduplication. This feature is desired to cover all types of clients from IBM - Backup-Archive, TSM4VE, TDP for SQL, TDP for mail and so on.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE restore only one disk, default space issue

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Restore Issue. The product design only permits these options when you want to restore only one individual unit like c: 1. If the target guest does not exist yet, space will be assigned on the datastore for...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to specify cluster as target for TSM4VE restores

Make it possible to specify ESXi cluster and storage cluster names when restoring VM in TSM4VE
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Provide a configurable session timeout for the TSSC web management interface.

Security standards are further restricting the timeout of sessions for admin interfaces. Reduces risk.
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

add multipath support into vsnap and vadp packages

Few vsnap or vadp are currently operated on hardware, but customers with large environments who want to back up many VMs or databases and store them on SAN volumes or use the SAN transport method. They have to take care of the multipath support ma...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Future consideration

Change the user running admin schedules

It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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