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    Hyperswap with FS9200 : prefered site selection with GUI 8.4, as it was possible with GUI 8.3

    When creatin an hyperswap volume in FS9200 GUI version 8.3, it was possible to select a prefered site; now, with GUI 8.4, it's no more possible.We request this possibility for hyperswap volumes to select in the GUI a prefered site to be implemente...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    3 sites Support

    Hi, we are receiving requirements about 3 Site Support. It is very necessary for our Customer. This a mandatory requirement from regulator.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    A command is needed to manually drop the FilesToCache and StatCache of the Client node mounted with GPFS to release the tokens of the server

    same as the topic
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus - Initial config

    Initial config does not state that ethernet requires access to vmkernel network. A quick test during config can fix this. Otherwise you need to add a nic, find cli user/password and manually config the new nic. Best practice is to have one mgmt ni...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Eliminate the use of ssh and sudo wrappers

    In most installations sshd PermitRootLogin is required to be NO for security reasons.That means sudo wrappers must be used. We do not use linux provided sudo but a vendor provided replacement that is centrally managed and auditable. We've had a di...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    TSM-VE : better handling of VM template backup

    may I suggest to not report a VM template backup as failed as it is done now when the VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS is specified in the datamover option file ? It dosen't make sens to raise Error when excpected behavior has occured. If I specify the opt...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    NDMP Restore function for normal GUI client

    Please implement NDMP filelevel restore functions in the normal GUI client like they were in the webgui client.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Sp. Virtualise for Public Cloud support for Google Cloud

    IBM has responded to a global RFP for HSBC which will replace 60PB of EMC Tier storage. It was made clear to us that without support for cloud integration / tiering to Google (HSBCs strategic cloud provider) our chances would be slim
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect : Protect stg from Directory container to Cloud Container

    Current TSM do not support Protect STG from Directory container to Cloud container. with Cloud Teiring its support Move of the data from directory container to Cloud container, but we dont have a way to only copy of the data. When you dont have lo...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

    Provide SPP GUI Server for more platforms than VMWare and Hyper-V

    The central Spectrum Protect Plus management server can be deployed as a virtual machine on VMWare or Hyper-V. But there are customers that want to protect workloads like Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, DB2, Mongo DB etc. with Spectrum Protect Plus, wh...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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