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Vsnaps with several interfaces.

We have two ethernet networks one 10GB and the other 1GB. The Vmware env has the two networks and Oracle has only 1GB. If I configure the Vsnap with both networks it uses 1GB for Vmware where we have 10 and 1 GB Ethetnet network, I would like to k...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Changing dynamic pagepool can cause the system to hang

The proposed changes to prevent system hang are as follows: 1. The code checks for available memory and if the available memory is less than the requested value, return the value users can change 2. As it takes time to allocate memory, the code re...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Avoid restore from copy pool when primary pool is of type VTL

Currently, when backup data is stored in both a primary and a copy pool, TSM restores this data from the pool where the data is located on less tapes. The disadvantage of this method: When using a VTL for the primary pool and physical tape for the...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Rolling upgrade of CES protocol node with object services

Current operation: Because object operations interact with all nodes, all object nodes must be at the same level. Therefore, object services need to be stopped across the cluster for the duration of the upgrade. This RFE is for allowing rolling up...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Quality of Service with Service Level Objective

The storage already support QoS in terms of IOPS and Throughput and, I know, QoS is applicable to host, domain, pool, volume, and restricted combinations of these entities. This could be implemented in terms of "Group of Volumes", I mean, this gro...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

DS8880 misses option to display possible and used virtual Capacity from WEB GUI

We use ESE volumes with small extents. In the WEB GUI we really miss a simple way to show the configured virtual Capacity as well as the max available virtual capacity. We suggest to add a bar beside the bar showing the physical capacity
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

BA Client Support for MAC based on Apple Silicon CPUs

We have many MAC-users with new Apple Silicon CPUs inside. In client requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apple-macintosh-client-requirements#Release%208.1 is noted "Apple silicon-based Macintosh, by using conversion mechanism Rosetta 2 ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Tape management in Operations Center

Using the TSM Operations Center - manage tape. Checkin, checkout, volume occupancy.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow SP for VE for Hyper-v REST API timeout to be adjustable

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment for Hyper-V 8.1.9 GUI times out after 15-20 minutes, and disconnects REST API session, making all manual backup running via Data Protection for Hyper-V GUI to fail and process status no longer visible. Plea...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Increase the number of volumes that can be created in the Storewize from 512 to 1024

Increase the number of volumes that can be created in the Storewize from 512 to 1024
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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