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IBM Storage Protect Plus Future Version can be able to Backup and Restore VM on cross Hypervisor platform as like Hyper-V to VMware to Hyper-V.

It can be useful a VM can be restore without require any connectors or convertors to change the VM disks from one hypervisor to another hypervisor and to reduce more admin tasks. In our environment we have IBM SP and SPP to compete with other Back...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

DeferredDeletion per INODE filespace

When an user deletes his files in a GPFS file system the inodes are freed directly, but for the data blocks an DeferredDeletion process is triggered which will delete the related data blocks in a background process. The quota usage of this user/gr...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Improve TS7700 Scratch Allocation Assistance functionality

We have 2 cluster Production Grid, 1 local and 1 remote. We preference the local cluster, because Ficon performance to remote forces us to. We have employed SAA to preference the local cluster.When the local cluster fails or is put into service pr...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Enhance REST API to GET/SET all availabe Filesystem Parameter i.e --auto-inode-limit

CNSA requires filesystemes with option --auto-inode-limit to be enabled. That Option is currently not available via REST API "get /scalemgmt/v2/filesystems/{filesystemName}". We utilize the REST API to verify all required storage parameter before ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Future consideration

Add a link to "view details" of a system directly from the dashboard (without having to choose a component).

The dashboards in Storage Insights are nice; however, it feels cumbersome to be looking at a storage system in the dashboard and then have to navigate to Resources --> Block Storage Systems to then select the same system to view the details. I ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1

Exclude certain days or months from SLA policy jobs

Spectrum Protect Plus in-built scheduler doesn't have the ability to not run backups on certain days.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Analoga to QUERY OCCUPANCY

For Nodes with complex data structure is often not enough to get information at the end of dsmc q ba "Path_to_objects/*" -subdir=yes -ina -querysummary with Total Data etc. More detailed aggregated information with backup/archive data amount and n...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Support CEPH as S3 target on "cloud storage tier"

IBM is pursuing CEPH as one of the S3 solutions ( additional to IBM COS) We are wondering if we could certify CEPH S3 interface as TS7700 offload target for TS7770C so we have the chance to use IBM COS or CEPH when deploying IBM S3 solutions onprem
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

VMware Tags support in SPP

Current VMware Tags support in SPP need to be enhanced so customer can control backups with VMware Tags. GUI Enhancements:SPP GUI need to show VMs added to a policy with a VMware Tag under Hypervisor/Backup/<vCenter>/SLA Policy, similar to i...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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