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Unprotected VMs View

At present it is quite hard to answer the question ‘what am I not backing up'. SPP displays a summary of this on the home page (Source Protection) and the Policy Overview page. On neither of these can I just click on the number shown and see a lis...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP : User to do FLR limitations

The user defined to catalog file metadata has to have all sudo permissions and this can be a security problem. Our Customer wants the list of sudo commands necessaries to catalog file metadata and restore files in the servers.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM scheduledtask based on calendar day

We need scheduling at specific calendar day/timeSelecting single or multiple day
about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

GPFS client support larger memory address space

Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

SPP - Auto-delete Old SPP System Logs from "/opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/archives"

After generating a SPP System Log:sudo /opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/logcollectThe files are stores here:"/opt/ECX/tools/logcollect/archives" There is currently no automated process that removes old System Logs. We recently had an issue with SPP where...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Single VM Backup History

A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Ability to configure start time for SPP "inventory" jobs

Customer requires functionality to configure start time for SPP inventory jobs.Default Application Server InventoryDefault Hypervisor Inventory
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Being able to backup different nodes on an Always-on to dfferent vSnaps

We should be able to backup different nodes on an Always-on structure to different vSnap servers. If there are 2 or 3 nodes on an Always-on structure we can backup a chosen node to desired vSnap. But it doesn't allow us to choose which node to bac...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enhance information provided in case of errors flushing file data from pagepool to persistent storage

In case of failures in that area, file data may be corrupted. Providing the information which files are affected omits the effort of manually identifying them by expensive scans of the file system.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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