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Lock retention on SLAs to keep data from being expired/deleted

Option to define a SLA that will lock the snapshots from deletion until further notice.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

prevent uneccessary recalls / improve DMAPI support with snapshots

[ this an an idea for the DMAPI part of GPFS when working with Spectrum Protect for Space Management ] We suggest to improve the DMAPI handling code in GPFS to detect when premigrated files that are part of a snapshot and the orignal files is migr...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.

Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Pool level mirroring - Protected Pools

The ability to mirror at the pool layer by creating a pool as a mirror pool to an existing pool (protection pool). Any volume that lands into the PRIMARY pool is automatically mirrored to the secondary protection pool. Removing the volume from the...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

TDP for SQL 2012 in Windows 2016

We have 2 Windows Server 2016 with both SQL 2012 and SQL 2016 instances.We need a TDP client version compatible with these three components, so we can backup all Databases in both SQL versions.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Pick a backup to offload in a cloud object storage or SP as archive

Hello support, I would like to know if it is possible to pick a backup that i want to offload in a cloud object storage or SP.We can define a SLA to to it as a politic. But the goal is to do it in onetime. example:do an incremental backup every da...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Fileset Cloning or read-write snapshots

I have a microservices application running on Spectrum Scale 5.x which is looking to weekly and monthly create a copy of the production filesets that may be used for a call in support testing environment as well as an environment for upgrade and b...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

decommission of a node or vm requires system level privilege

When decommissioning a node or VM – even if the user is the node owner they cannot decommission it. To decommission anything you have to have system level privileges. Yes, this is an issue as we have to provide elevated permissions to contractors ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Store backup CRs with Application

CRs should be stored with the application namespace so they are versioned with application and backed up as part of the namespace backup. Storing the backup CRs with the Backup namespace means restore is limited to clusters that are manage by the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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