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Currency Support for spectrum protect for Snapshot

We missing the Support of Spectrum Protect for Snapshot on rhel7.6 x86_64 Systems. Today the prereq checker complain that only 7.5 are supported. We use the snapshot function for db2 here.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release

Fix ANS1715E different virtual machine UUID error message

When backing up a virtual machine for which the UUID has changed, the following error is thrown:ANS4308E Full VM backup of 'Hyper-V' Virtual Machine 'WS50115' failed with RC=4379 mode=Incremental Forever - Incremental, target node name='CLSIM261_H...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Protect virtual machines with shared virtual harddisks (shared VHDX or VHDSet)

We rely heavily on guest clustering for high availability. Virtualization delivers availability at the server level, but not at the application level. If a machine goes down unexpectedly, Hyper-V will bring it up on another Hyper-V host, but from ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Need support of Power 9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Server and Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

ESS K8S CSI Should Have GPFS Node Health Sanity Checking

The IBM Spectrum Scale CSI Driver does not do any sanity checking with regard to the GPFS remote cluster status of the K8S node it is running on. The CSI driver should not allow the K8S scheduler to schedule any pods that require ESS storage on th...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for HNAS CSI Driver

Hitachi HNAS CSI Driver support is needed to backup Openshift persistent volumes with IBM's Spectrum Protect Plus. HNAS CSI Driver Documentation URL link: https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Storage/NAS_Platform/Best_practices/Hitachi_N...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Movement of Config node without node reboot

Ties into RFE 114313.command structure or flag that can be used to set the next targeted config node, then be able to execute the movement of the config node without requiring a reboot of the current config node.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Spectrum Protect CMS feature

Starting 8.1.13 baclient / OC version, CMS is integrated with the baclient code. Right now, only part of the relevant baclient logs for investigations are being reported. It could be very helpful for “remote” diagnostics that the CMS is able to gr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

LDAP Group Authorization for ADMIN users

IBM Storage Protect is actually the only product in our environment that is not allowing to map LDAP groups to specific authorization levels. How should this work?You would for example define on the SP server in dsmserv.opt the LDAP url including ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

CSM ability for more than two CSM servers in configuration sharing a common database and staying in synch. Active/Active

3. The ability two have more than two Servers actively sharing the same CSM database. As an Active/Active instead of an Active/Standby configuration. The ability to have more than two servers join the same CSM configuration and stay in Synch with ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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