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Storage Copy Data Management

    Add retry logic to increase resilience when there is a short-duration DNS outage

    The current version of the system will result in a job failure when there is a short-duration DNS outage. The current code will result in a job failure when this happens as there apparently is no logic to retry a failed DNS operation. This has led...
    4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Ability to restore an Oracle DB to a single host in a RAC cluster

    Basically, we need to be able to select one member of a cluster as a restore destination.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Scanning AIX volumes

    In AIX environments (including Oracle DBs with ASM) most of the attacks are lending to AIX volumes like boot and other. It would be advisable to allow Sentinel to scan them under Storage Virtualize for Snapshot backup jobs.
    5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

    Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Future consideration

    IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

    Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Future consideration

    command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

    We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Under review

    SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

    SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necess...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Copy Data Management 3 Future consideration

    SCDM support for KVM

    Many customers are using KVM hypervisor in their Oracle environments because of Oracle licensing rules. Thus, having SCDM supporting KVM virtualized servers will open new opportunities.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Future consideration

    Aredent Health - Dell Customer - Optimize Masking View Creation by Resolving HostGroups During Restore

    During restore, CDM needs to map LUNs to the hosts. If there are three separate hosts, CDM will create a masking view for each, which means: 2 Storage Groups × 3 Hosts = 6 masking views. But If their hosts are under a parent HostGroup, CDM will re...
    10 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    SCDM - CDM/Sentinel - Post snapshot script run before Sentinel scan starts

    Clients using Sentinel Scan engine needs a way to kickoff a Post Snap script before the Scan Engine gets started for Sentinel. This will allow clients the ability to get some work done before a long scan run, such at 15-20 hours.
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Future consideration

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