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    HW Snapshot support in SPP for HPe 3PAR

    Customer (a large SP and competition (mainly for VMware) user) is running an RFI concerning backup/recovery. Part of this RFI is protection of VMware. Customer is using HP 3PAR hardware for their VMware vSphere enviroment.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Bare Metal Restore (BMR) from backupsets

    I get confirmation from developer that we have no valuable workaround with the WINPE + ASR method . We will update the WINPE document .As said before you must open a RFE if you need this functionality to be added in the future.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.

    Request Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Improvment for FICON Adapter error corretion process.

    The customer requested improvement for FICON Adapter error correction process when the link status goes to unstable. Please refer to the case, TS010589231. The support team said, "If customer insists to change an unstable fscsi path to disable, Yo...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Allow pending glacier protocol requests automatic clean up on SP server for failed or aborted restores

    Design of the code needs to clean up automatically on the SP server left over glacier restore requests coming from Spectrum Protect Plus when the client (here SPP) has failed or the user cancelled the active restore process.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    TSM for VE - File-level restore process similar to TSM BA GUI

    In a virtual environment, be able to execute file-level restore to alternate location using a backup operator account and keeping the original Windows folders/files permissions. This process would be similar to TSM BA client restore process, that ...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Add SNMP monitoring capabilities to CDM

    The IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management appliance does provide SMTP to send alerts when an SLA or job fails.For integration in monitoring/event management tools, the ability to select SNMP trap sending is required.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    CDM appliance self-monitoring

    The functionality of the CDM processes themselves should be monitored on the appliance and the possibility to receive alerts when the main CDM program has problems.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Storage Insights to display PPRCPATH Pairing Information from the DS8000

    We already have Copy Data statistics that pull in a wide range of information with regard to copy pairs, etc. Would it be possible to include PPRC Paths and their pairings at the LCU level, just like we can retrieve from DSCLI and the GUI? This wo...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Simplify and Enhance the Copyset Build Process using the GUI Copyset Build Wizard

    We utilize CSM in our environment a lot and that utilization is increasing. Typically and probably for most users, we build the session and then have to go out to excel or some other method externally to build the .csv to build the copyset pairing...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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