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TSM4VE separate installation from configuration

During installation of TSM4VE the installer requires information about the vCenter and vCeneter user, including a password. This is not always needed (when not registering a plug-in or extension) and prevents a generic installation that can later ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

VDisk Mirror monitoring events

Customer is requesting the addition of events for situations when SVC cannot update a vdiskcopy of a mirrored vdisk anymore. Furthermore TPC should capture and ad a constraint for those events, so that an admin can look at a constraint violation r...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SCOM Management Pack for Spectrum Protect, Sectrum Protect Plus.

A management pack for the management of Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus in System Center Operation Manager.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to alert on age of DS8000 FlashCopy

Storage Insights does not currently have any built in alerts related to FlashCopy, or ability to create custom alerts. It would be helpful for us to create alerts based on the presence of a FlashCopy set, the age of the set, etc.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TSM4VE UI does not support restore VMs multiple

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the parallel / multiple restore of VMs at a time. We are selected 4 VM's for the restoration only one process is started with VM restoration. After completing the 1st VM restoration 2nd VM proce...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Flexibility to connect SVC for Public CLoud to any Cloud Provider

In the SVC User Group, we had a conversation with Michelle. In working for the Federal Government, we have franchise customers who have a desire to decide their own Cloud provider, but then utilize us to provision and configure storage for them. W...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Consider fiber channel port speed as attribute for alerting creation

Consider fiber channel actual and capable port speed as port attribute for alerting creation
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Offload to multiple Spectrum Protect Repositories

Current problem is, only one Spectrum Protect Repository can be adressed using accesskey and secret key. But we need to offload to multiple servers, due to contingency reasons. We think restriction does not make any sense, and we were glad if this...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Change warning message to information message

In TSM for VE 7.1 the warning message "ANS4063W" is triggering an RC 8 return code on the scheduled event. We would like the warning message changed to an information message instead.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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