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Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Cluster Export Services support on AIX

Cluster Export Services are supported only in a Linux environment. I want to use an AIX environment and use AIX servers as SMB, NFS, and Object Protocol nodes.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Improve tape restores

We notice that when an VM Incremental Forever backup is to be restored (or mounted) a lot repeated tape mounts are performed and it takes a long time. For instance, if in one of the tapes there is several chunks of data from different backup dates...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Bind management classes according to file size

Currently management classes are assigned by the backup archive client and are based solely on directories names and/or files names.In some cases, it might be better to assign a management class to a file size range.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

On the Storage Scale Server (SSS) formerly ESS, the "mmlsnsd" command should show the NSD disk primary/secondary server relationship as previously done and does so for Spectrum Scale on SANs and Lenovo DSS.

Having "mmlsnsd" display the NSD disk data path ownership (primary/secondary server relationships) allows customers to balance disk assignments. In addition, Lenovo DSS does this already and customers migrating from Lenovo , like MorganStanley, ha...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

enhance DELETE policies

When writing a cleanup policy using as DELETE rule it can happen that a file cannot deleted for some reason (e.g. user has deleted it in the meantime or file is still in use). For a certain type of cleanup procedures this is tolerable and you do n...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Enhance policy handling to allow ordering of rules

I want to delete dirs and files in a subtree depending on their mtime. Using a policy file I can identify the files and dirs and order them by DIRECTORY_HASH to ensure the correct deletion order from deepest to highest paths. This works falwlessly...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SP server output file ownership/permissions

SP can output several types of files. For example, DRM recovery plans, backing up devconfig or volhist, select command output, etc. We can already control where to direct the output, i.e., directory structure and filename. Having the ability to al...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Operations Center - Management class - Custom retention time

When defining a management class from the Operations Center, there are only predefined values for the Backups, Keep Extra backups etc.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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