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Multiple databases managed by a single instance

Known Issues and Limitations Specific to the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 Component. If there are multiple databases managed by a single instance, only one of these databases can be protected by IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Snapshot directories should be separate mountpoints or snapshotted files should have unique inode numbers

In Linux, files in Spectrum Scale snapshots have the same device id(st_dev) and inode number (st_ino) as their live counterparts. Theyhave the same device because all snapshots in a filesystem are under thesame mountpoint as the live version of th...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Need Plus to "recognize" cloned Oracle Database, keep it on the SLA to continue backups, possibly with tagging, or backup of all databases from a host with the option to exclude.

Regular cloning for Oracle Databases for patching process, which also moves the binaries, but maintains the inventory. Patched clone is then set as the production database. Need Plus to recognize the new Oracle as the production, keep it with the ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Non-SSL adhoc node restoration not possible to initiate

Non-SSL Node adhoc restoration not possible configured to IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.3 We have active directory authentication enabled for our spectrum protect admin session which requires SSL. But all of our nodes are still running in Non-SS...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

File Access Logging support for read only remote mounts

File Access Logging in Spectrum Scale 5.1 eliminates the need for kafka, but it only works if the filesystem is mounted read/write. So a remote cluster with a RO mount is not supported by FAL.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Changes for ISP Server/Client

Will there be an Systemd-Daemon file one day for better controlling of the system processes of the ISP software?Because the ISP server and client software haven't yet an native systemd-daemon and are using still the old SysV-Init-Daemon files whic...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for Windows CSVFS

Support for Windows CSVFS (introduced in Windows 2008-R2).In windows 2012 Microsoft drastically improved the usage cases for Windows CSV where you can use Scale-Out fileservers in a active-active windows failover cluster configuration which give t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Smaller CES configuration

CES nodes support a lot of connections - but require excessive amount of memory, even when the amount of connections planned is a lot lower.128 GB as minimum for a node providing both NFS and SMB is way too much.It would be good to have support fo...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

SnapDiff to tape

Add feature to make incremental/differential backups of Netapp volumes to tapes base on changed blocks. A New Backup Architecture for NAS Systems - SnapDiff V3 (netapp.com)
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

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

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