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Make Spectrum Protect Plus IPv6 compliant

Spectrum Protect Plus only works with IPv4.If only IPv6 is enabled than SPP is not working (loses connection to his VDAP storage by example).So can you make SPP IPv6 compliant.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

An error Icon should overlay the question mark

In a CSM HA Configuration (Standby Server is configured) it is the case that if this server is down that a question mark is displayed at the top menu (e.g. at the “Storage” Menu bar”). So far so good.If now an outage happens (e.g. from one storage...
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

CSM FCM show incorrect CylinderCount on EAVs with more than 999999 Cyl

CSM FCM (FlashCopyManager) does not show the correct Cylinder count in case of using EAV Volumes with more than 999,999 Cyls. FCM truncates first digit For me this is a defect and should be solved on PMR basis. IBM told me to open RFE.I hope, this...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Document CLI based upgrade of SPP server

Our team uses IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server for data backup and for data reuse. However, we need to upgrade IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server component to current version but we cannot access the admin interface on port 8090 cause this IP port i...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add "Warning" to VM Backup History Report

Add "Warning" to List of Status Parameters in VM Backup History Report.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

RPO Monitoring by using the CSM status

The RPO is monitoring in a CSM Global Mirror session by using RPO alerts, according to warning and severe level thresholds. When RPO warning level is reached an IWNR2751W message will be seen in the CSM console log, and when RPO severe level is re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Initial config

Initial config does not state that ethernet requires access to vmkernel network. A quick test during config can fix this. Otherwise you need to add a nic, find cli user/password and manually config the new nic. Best practice is to have one mgmt ni...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Catalog file discovery results failed in VM Backup

SPP can run catalog file metadata on backup VM for different vLans networks.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

A setting or flag to prevent files from migrating if they are not yet replicated

Spectrum Protect is replicating file that have already been migrated to tape
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Eliminate the use of ssh and sudo wrappers

In most installations sshd PermitRootLogin is required to be NO for security reasons.That means sudo wrappers must be used. We do not use linux provided sudo but a vendor provided replacement that is centrally managed and auditable. We've had a di...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration