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    Data Protect/DMS - support denser x86 servers, external JBODs, Fibre Channel attached storage (i.e. FlashSystem)

    Ready Nodes not dense enough per RU in current iteration for large enterprises. Number of nodes also adds number of networking connections needed / TOR switches. This adds complexity and cost. We want to use dense COS-like tech with external JBODs...
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    Allow custom configuration of ciphers used by a Spectrum Protect server for TLS connections

    Spectrum Protect servers use TLS for incoming client and administrative sessions over the netowrk. An incoming TLS connection is offered a number of ciphers to use for the TLS connection by the Spectrum Protect server. Whilst this list of ciphers ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Search for VM backup status

    On a regular basis we are asked 'did my VM backup' or 'how long did my VM backup take'. There is currently no way of searching for his information directly within the SPP GUI, instead job logs have to be downloaded as a CSV and imported into excel...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Only restore blocks needed for VM restore

    Customer has requested if it would be possible to only recover the needed blocks to restore a VM back to a desired point in time. Customer stated that in previous tools this was the method used and that it reduced the time needed to do a restore. ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Metro DR and Regional DR for Fusion SDS (Fusion Data Foundation) without external IBM Ceph dependency

    Our customer Euro Information is a very large banking company. They are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment with their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several datacenters. This means using Metro DR with synchronous...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    Improve the performance of small I/O for large files when AFM was enable

    I have two storage scale cluster with AFM enable,cluster A as Primary for production,B as secondary for backup,my production cluster performance Seriously degradation whe using small I/O for large files（In most cases, there is up to a thirtyfold d...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    SPP RESTORE PRODUCTION

    Our vmware team found a problem using the production restore method. They saw that just before the final step of the process, SPP makes vcenter delete the original virtual machine so that it could create the new one with the same unique identifier...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    More granularity for Retention Rule

    To be able to choose directory(ies) in Retention Rule to have more flexibility. Most of the time, needs are to create a retention set on specific directory, not all the filespace.SP well know all the backed up directories and files from a node. Th...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

    Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    VMotion DRS Support for Scale RDM NSD + Quorum Nodes

    This IDEA is to support vMotion for NSD RDM nodes. VMware clients - vMotion DRS is enabled by default, used by all clients. To use Scale RDM with ESXi - vMotion is either enabled (automatic) or disabled (manual). To confirm disabled simply means ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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