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Monitor Spectrum Archive components in mmhealth

Spectrum Archive is missing from mmhealty. Please add monitoring of services and sub-component status similar to tiering to cloud. Lots of library, drive, cartridge and task statuses are easily available from the eeadm command.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Update CopyOperator role in IBM Spectrum Virtualize

IBM SVC v8.2.1.9IBM CSM v6.2.8 >Trying to execute CSM FlashCopy sessions to SVC controllers and CSMSERVICE account needs 'Administrator' role access as the 'CopyOperator' privelidges are insufficent. > Unfortunately the 'CopyOperator' group ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Flashsystem : Behavior when the management IP port cable is disconnected

If the cable of the node with the management IP on the side with the management IP is disconnected, there will be no SNMP signal or syslog signal forever.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Class Encryption at rest i n Spectrum Protect Plus

Please add an encryption at rest capability with KMIP integration for external key management systems such as IBM SKLM
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: vm search and selection

In the SP Plus interface, in the backup tab (/pages/hypervisor/vmware/backup) , while searching a VM to assign it to a particular SLA Policy, it would be nice to have a filter available to limit the scope of the search. First thing I think about i...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SOBAR like recovery for Spectrum Archive

Large Spectrum Archive installation cannot afford backing up files twice so file replication on different tapes is being used.Spectrum Scale Metadata becomes critical as any corruption due to software or harware error may produce a long outage to ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Make Dynamic Volume Expansion without losing our previous SGC backups

We will implement SafeGuardedCopy on our new DS8980F. We want to be able to make Dynamic Volume Expansion without losing our previous SGC backups. Can this be available in a near future ? We are aware of the following : (Extract from IBM Copy Ser...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Support for Extended ACL Propagation on Spectrum Protect BA Client Restore to Isilon NAS via Windows Proxy.

The customer opened a tickets to report that when he would restore files locally on a Windows host / proxy, it would restore the extended ACL proxy using the BA Client but when he does the same, using the same Windows Proxy but to restore the data...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

DS8K Metromirror Recovery Method

In order to quickly recovery a metromirror relationship (at 800KM) the copy sets had to be switched to Global Copy Mode and then Switched back once resynched. This should not be an undocumented recovery method. This should be automatic behavior fr...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

A new policy update from BA client .optfile that does not allow overwrite a management class from BA client.

A server admin can update the .optfile from BA client by human error causing an overwrite of a management class at Spectrum Protect server, that is causing unexpected expiration of backups. For example, a configuration mistake pointing the .optfil...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

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