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Add ability to specify cluster as target for TSM4VE restores

Make it possible to specify ESXi cluster and storage cluster names when restoring VM in TSM4VE
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

DS8K Metromirror Recovery Method

In order to quickly recovery a metromirror relationship (at 800KM) the copy sets had to be switched to Global Copy Mode and then Switched back once resynched. This should not be an undocumented recovery method. This should be automatic behavior fr...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Change the user running admin schedules

It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Hyperswap with FS9200 : prefered site selection with GUI 8.4, as it was possible with GUI 8.3

When creatin an hyperswap volume in FS9200 GUI version 8.3, it was possible to select a prefered site; now, with GUI 8.4, it's no more possible.We request this possibility for hyperswap volumes to select in the GUI a prefered site to be implemente...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

DeferredDeletion per INODE filespace

When an user deletes his files in a GPFS file system the inodes are freed directly, but for the data blocks an DeferredDeletion process is triggered which will delete the related data blocks in a background process. The quota usage of this user/gr...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Fast replication of tape

During tape replication over a longer distance, RPO time can be quite long (>1 h). In a disaster recovery scenario, this is not acceptable. Potentially we could loose critical data.
about 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 17 Not under consideration

Customer access to download and manipulate logfiles

Since customer is allowed to do a code load it is evident that the log files should not contain any errors. Since the logfiles can only be downloaded from call home support and manipulated we have an issue when the customer initiated code load fails.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Provide description of "Indexing new scan data" on Spectrum Discover web UI

We can see "Indexing new scan data" in the web interface under Data Connections -> Scan history. Some scans show "Indexing new scan data" for days and we don't see any progress. Is it possible to display all steps ("Scanning NFS mount", "Indexi...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Add support for SNI in TLS handshake when using TLS/SSL

When using SSL/TLS from clients, the handshake towards the server should include SNI in order to better support centralized certificate management when using e.g. SSL offloading hosts RFC 6066 specifies:It is RECOMMENDED that clients include an ex...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

« Key Management Interoperability Protocol » (KMIP) support

We would like the IBM TS4500 library to support the KMIP protocol in order to use a different encryption key manager than the IBM SGKLM software
7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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