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IBM Spectrum Protect for VE-Remove 8 TB VMDK snapshot backup Restriction or Extend snapshot backup of VMDK from 8TB to 64 TB

We would like to have IBM enhance IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments product and remove this restriction/limitation to fail the snapshot backup of VMDK which is grater then 8 TB in size. We would like to have IBM remove this limitation/...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add search option to backup VMs.

Adding option to search for VM's instead of opening each and every ESXI in order to find our VM.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Loss of change block tracking files

Implement a mechanism allowing in the event of loss or corruption of CBT files not to redo a full backup.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Integrity control for stored datas on vsnap

Set up an integrity check to validate that the data that was copied to the vsnap server are valid.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add maximum parallel sessions for NDMP backups

Limit the number of parallel backup sessions for NDMP backups of NetApp (or any other) NAS node.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Flashcopy snapshot on stretched cluster volume should have same preffered node as the source volume

When creating a snapshot, flashcopy volumes are assigned on a round robin method. When in a stretched cluster scenario, when you create a snapshot, you want to keep the snapshot at the same site as the source volume to prevent unwanted I/O on the ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Option to not automatically create mountpoints

When a Filesystem is created, GPFS makes sure, the mountpoint is created on all client nodes. We need an option to suppress this behaviour.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Container Storage Interface support of Endurance storage and Portworx storage.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Storage Interface currently do not support Endurance storage or Portworx.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Request for extra RHEL8 packages in ESS

We have a list of OS packages that we would love to have included in ESS 6.x.x.x, now that we no longer can install any RHEL package like we could in ESS v5. Inclusion of any of the below packages is helpful for us, if you say no to some packages ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration