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    ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.

    Since I upgraded to ISP Version 8.1.7 I get the following errors: 15:01:47 ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.15:01:47 ANR2837E The creation of the IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT pol...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore

    SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restoreSPP is not currently aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore. VM(s) will be restored with the default vSAN storage policy, not the one specified in the source VM(s). It w...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allow for the concurrent creation/existence of several recovery sets from a given set of SGC captures

    Our use case: a daily backup to tape of SGC restores for our 4 production environments. The largest one takes 10 hours to background copy before we can create another restore which is longer than the time to backup to tape without the background c...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Improvement in Data connections filter in UI

    In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a filter would be very useful especially because we are already dealing with more than 300 data sources. At the moment it is very cumbersome to f...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Functionality already exists

    Spectrum Protect should not backup vSPhere vCLS VMs

    The vCLS VMs should be fully ignored by Spectrum Protect for vSphere. IBM support could not help with the problem, but recommended me to submit an RFE for this.See:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GU...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Preventive Function to corrupt a volume as flashcopy target if the volume is scsi reserved

    If a volume is mounted and used by a OS and V7000 execute flashcopy to the volume as target, the volume is corrupted by occurring inconsistent with filesystem on the OS. The our client strongly request an optional function to prevent the situation...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    GUI improvement to policies

    1. Often we see that if the policy gets slightly complicated, the ILM editor bails out, and only gives us the possibility of editing the policy file directly. The policy editor should be much more robust, so that it can be used for more than the s...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    IP Quorum message when deamon stoppes running or VM is down.

    After setup IP quorum in a Stretched cluster environment there is no warning\error or message when the VM is down or deamon stopped running. So a message or event is needed to take action to start the IP quorum again.
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Include fonts and other resources to GUI (Spp server)

    Please remove external links to fonts etc from GUI. Management clients does not have access to internet. So, we have to wait for timeouts before continuing.
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    Extend valid settings for option "etfcmoverallocationmax" on mk|chmdiskgrp commands and its applicability in general.

    Currently the option "etfcmoverallocationmax" offers four valid settings "100,200,300,400" to set the maximum over-allocation which Easy Tier can migrate onto FCM arrays, when the array is used as the top tier in a multi-tier pool. It currently wo...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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