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Client Deploy should not break 100% if one single server fails package prepare. Failure causes should show up in the GUI. Documentation should show troubleshooting details.

If you have multiple spectrum protect servers which are replicating, and then you enable client deploy,then if any one of the deploy targets has an error, such as a replica server that was offline,and then if you have daily replication which pushe...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to "lock" a session from admin role to avoid any action on that session

In some d/r configuration where you can setup a MM-GMp session normally working but also a GM reverse session from H3 to H1 to protect the data when you switch to H3 site to run production, it could be advisable to have the ability for the admin r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Lift the limit that one filespace can only have one node replication session

I got more than 50 filespaces, some of these filespaces are filled with PB-level file data. To replicate one of the PB-level filespaces on LTO-8 tapes, will take more than one month. 1PB=1024*1024*1024 MB LTO-8 Drive read/write speed: 360MB/s 1024...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Resources > Hosts view does not show the Health Summary status table

The Hosts view (Resources > Hosts) does not show the Health Summary status table at the top of the page, next to the device image. In comparison, reviewing all the other Resource views, they all have the Health Summary status table: - Resources...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Display VM name to restore JOB Name

Hi, We find it extremely hard to follow & find my restore vm's since our environment have many restore due to massive data reuse and the restore jobs are not displaying the restored vm names and there is only numbers such as: OnDemandrestore_1...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM Replication at Host Level

Ability to replicate virtual machines at the Hypervisor host level, allowing VMs to failover to secondary site and continue services, without the need for restore from TSM backup. This would be a compliment to the backup and recovery services prov...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

VM move from one VC to another schould be recognized by SPP

In large and grown VMware environments it can happen that VMs have to be moved from one virtual center to the next in the same cluster. With Virtual Centers that have existed for many years, VMware Support may recommend installing a new VC and mov...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

E-mail-based callhome in Spectrum Scale

the customer deployed different IBM storages. in A9000 like storage, it provides the email-based callhome. When the call home detects some potential issues, it will collect some data, send the data to one email address from IBM and the proper supp...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GPFS client for Mac

Having a native GPFS client would make it much simpler to use Spectrum Scale with a Mac.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

In the Future, adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 based on PCIe 6 or CXL 4.0 based on PCIe 7 to the Spectrum Scale to integrate it with Nvidia DGX ( when it enabled the CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

This is a necessary idea to develop a new version of Basic POD or SuperPOD which can use Nvidia DGX, Nvidia DPUs, Intel IPU, Intel FPGA , Xilinx FPGA and other CXL enabled Accelerators. We can use this super POD for advanced Cyber security solutio...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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