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    Spectrum Virtualize v8.2.1.9 'lsfabric' command does not support hostclusters

    When tracking host fabric connections to a Spectrum Virtualize controller (especially with multiple IO groups) the command 'lsfabric -host <hostname>' can be used.However our VMWare cluster has 9 hosts, configured within a host cluster.The '...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    IBM SPP vSnap Seeding from a Remote Site

    Customer with Remote Offices need a way to seed initial backups in the local vSNAP server with the centralised HQ rather than waiting for data to transfer over the WAN links.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Integrate Restore UI with Spectrum Protect server

    Symentac Netbackup, Commuvault and other Backup software have RESTORE UI integrated with Master server console. We need to develop Spectrum Protect with the RESTORE UI integrated with Spectrum Protect server
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Enable nas backup to use container stg pools

    Today celera nas backup must use a devclass=file as target for backup. Please make container stgpool available as a target for NAS backup in general.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Allow global Filter/search across entire SI Instance

    When I have multiple devices in my environment, I need a quick way to drill down to what device is of immediate concern. If I get CRC errors from a WWPN, I need to search my SI instance for which array is presenting that WWPN. If I need to grow a ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    extend the Operations Center REST API by reporting functionality

    extend the Operations Center REST API by functions to query reporting values, as they are provides by the "General Operations" report
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect for VE - Hyper-V, Change default restore location in MMC

    Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment - Hyper-V v8.1.8 on Hyper-V 2016: Is it possible to change the default restore location inside the MMC GUI when doing a Virtual Maschine Restore? If yes, how? Right now the default location (C:\ProgramData\...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

    add multipath support into vsnap and vadp packages

    Few vsnap or vadp are currently operated on hardware, but customers with large environments who want to back up many VMs or databases and store them on SAN volumes or use the SAN transport method. They have to take care of the multipath support ma...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Future consideration

    More intelligent Caching

    With the DS8000 IBM has several patents and very efficient caching algorithms. This interlectural property should be also available in the SVC
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Ganesha - Event 1 could not be processed for fd 5 rc I/O error , report the client that abuse the Ganesha, monitor that error and have action

    When Ganesha server hit this error - the NFS server just hang , there is no ip failover, or restart of the NFS server: epoch 001103c9 : gpfs.ganesha.nfsd-1492239[fsal_up_0.48] GPFSFSAL_UP_Thread :FSAL_UP :WARN :Event 1 could not be processed for f...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

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