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Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs

GEICO is in the process of migrating from older Scale infrastructure to an ESS infrastructure. Non-disruptive migration is blocked when Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

The virgo log needs to be consistent with SPP server timezone.

The virgo log is written in UTC timezone, which is hard-code. SPP time zone is set as per SPP server location. When we analyze virgo log for any problem, it is difficult to corelate with time as SPP time zone is different. So instead of hardcoding...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Management IP issues in a Stretched SVC cluster

If the system is in a Enhanced Stretched Cluster or a HyperSwap configuration, an option to have all inbound and outboud Ethernet traffic (management, call home, etc) flow from Ethernet Port 2 should the control node be on site 2. This would allow...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support AWS PrivateLink for S3 bucket in Spectrum Protect

We use AWS PrivateLink, which allows AWS customers to send data to S3 over a site-to-site VPN and their VPC, instead of going over the public internet. AWS PrivateLink works by giving customers a personalized DNS address, which can be used to acce...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum protect : restrict possible actions of a backup administrator on source data(prevent erasure)

As the data privacy and security become a priority for our client, we need to improve Spectrum Protect product to enhance data privacy and security. The aim of this RFE is to find a way so that a backup administrator (responsible of managing backe...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

NDMP backups to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is no way to get NDMP into the cloud. Also, NDMP TOC data cannot be replicated at all. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which wa...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Support for proxy for Spectrum Control

Support SC (Spectrum Control) work thru Proxy. Lot of times i
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center

HiI try to generate Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center but there is no monthly option available. Currently available options are either daily or weekly only. Would you please provide e-fix for the monthly option? My operati...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Add command that will display the eta for the full process to bring a drive back into use after its replacement.

In certain cases, you'd like to know the full time all work related to the replacement of a drive will take. For example, we had a major issue, with multiple hw components needing to be replaced. I can't replace the next one, until this drive work...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review