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Operation center does not support working with server groups

Because of the size of our environment (30 servers) we use servergroups for several things like for instance routing a command to several servers at once. The use, creation and modification of server groups is currently not supported in operation ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Include resource request and limits in Fusion deployment

All Fusion critical pods should have a resource request and limit assigned at deployment time and that could be reconfigured after deployment to match new requirements. A profile concept would be created to change/set the request and limit of thes...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

NDMP Restore function for normal GUI client

Please implement NDMP filelevel restore functions in the normal GUI client like they were in the webgui client.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

multi-tenant requirement for POSIX interface

The ESS storage is manged by customer storage department. the clients are from different business departments. The customer takes NFS interface for data access. The customer wants to take POSIX interface for their clients because of performance. H...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Subnet specification for RDMA based clusters

When connecting two Scale Clusters via RDMA, the "subnets" parameter is limiting. We at Vcinity specialize in building equipment that is used for connecting systems over the wan using the RDMA protocol. Whether it is InfiniBand or ROCE, we provide...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Protection of namespaces under AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services

We have customer in Brazil which would like to protect just the namespaces which they have on AKS, storing this backup on Azure Object Storage. Currently, SPP does not support AKS.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

AFM for Object Storage Support

We have a large set of science data that we save on our IBM Spectrum Scale system and to be able to reduce the amount of spinning fast disk are we using IBM Spectrum Archive to extend our storage to tape. But now does our data science people ask u...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect : Protect stg from Directory container to Cloud Container

Current TSM do not support Protect STG from Directory container to Cloud container. with Cloud Teiring its support Move of the data from directory container to Cloud container, but we dont have a way to only copy of the data. When you dont have lo...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

Achive/Retrieve/Backup operations on ISP v8.1 webclient

We need retrieve operations for webclient. Our pilot teams retrieve lots of files everydays. They are no administrator and they must choose files in the long list of everyday archives files. Our customers regulary ask some files. Pilot team are no...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

DS8K Should Be Intelligent Enough to Compare Source and Target Data for Remote Copies

When a relationship between a source and target system is accidentally lost, the DS8K must re-copy all the data. Instead the DS8K should be able to compare the source and target data so that only changed data or missing structures are copied. This...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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