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    Dynamic RAID / Declustered RAID for Next DS8880

    Distributed RAID or Declustered RAID or Dynamic RAID is especially popular with RAID-6 (what is now a default), and larger drive capacities.With larger drive capacities, the rebuild times in general grow a lot. Now this Distributed RAID not only d...
    over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    TS7700 - Validate export media

    Validation of data (logical volume) in the physical media.
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    move or migrate cloud container

    There's no way or support to move or migrate the content of a cloud container.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Copy Data Management needs to support AIX LVM volume Mirroring for HA (2 separate storage devices for each mirror)

    Any user of AIX with HA/LVM Mirrors will benefit. Not every AIX system can be brought up to current code and FlashCopy Manager no longer supports aix 6. I have an SAP/Oracle System with HA across 2 sites/SVC clusters. An LVM mirror is in each site...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Rebalancing datamovers for a TAG-based schedule should exclude EXCLUDED VMs

    When running a command to rebalance assigned datamovers for a TAG-based schedule I was surprised that the VMs with TAG 'Ecxluded' of category 'Backup Management (IBM Spectrum Protect)' was included and had a datamover-tag assigned. The rebalancing...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    dsmc incre generated ANS4005E failure for /etc/adsm/tsmpswd.lck, it should be added into the auto exclude list

    dsmc incr generates the following message:ANS1228E Sending of object '/etc/adsm/tsmpswd.lck' failed.ANS4005E Error processing '/etc/adsm/tsmpswd.lck': file not found This file is generated a during the client backup. Client expects no error messag...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus SQL Log backups not snapshotted replicated until DB backups initiated

    SQL Log backups in SPP in CIFS share are not snapshotted until the next DB backup and its subsequent snapshot. Similarly, SQL log backup snapshots are only replicated when the SQL DB backup snapshot replication is scheduled.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus backups with VMware Storage DRS

    Client has VMware Storage DRS enabled. Spectrum Protect Plus checks the previous location of the VM on the datastore. If it has been moved as a result of DRS, it performs a full base backup.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect

    Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect file-level client to support Isilon NAS changelist function.

    The EMC Isilon has a Changelist function that shows the activity between snapshots. The request is to use that function to get a list of files to back up or expire (similar to the SnapDiff API on NetApp TSM currently exploits).
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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