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virtualized WindowsCluster protection by TSM for VE and FCM

WindowsClusters can not be realized as snapshot by Vpshere is disabled by Vpshere itself. Snapshot API by Vsphere is used by TSM for VE and FCM .
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

When COS has storage pool/access pool communication issue, Event console in Manager GUI might need to keep the record for problematic device name.

When COS has storage pool/access pool communication issue, Manager GUI guide to 'Communication Issues' page, but once the issue is resolved/cleared, we can't know which device had the communication issue. If Event console includes the information ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Add option to backup VM with Shared Virtual Hard Disks.

With the current release of IBM Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V, VM's with Shared virtual disks cannot be backed-up (error message: ANS2552E Backup of a virtual machine that has a shared virtual hard disk is not supported.). Add an option similar lik...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Change how SVC GUI pool percentages are calculated

Currently, the SVC GUI calculates pool utilization (volumes by pool section) by utilized / virtual capacity. This gives you a false sense of utilization because if you're overprovisioned, you will hit the physical capacity and the pool will go rea...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Repeat email alerts are often indistinguishable from "new" email alerts. Add the word "Reminder" to subject line.

The SVC will send reminder notifications about errors/events that have not been "Fixed" every 24 hours. When these reminder emails are received, the text in the subject line is exactly the same as the original email notification. This duplication ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SPP PLUS: ENHANCE SPP TO UPDATE VM GUID INTO AN EXISTING BACKUP

-Enhance SPP plus to be able to update VM GUID into an existing backup.- An option that updates the globally unique identifier (GUID) for the virtual machine that are being backed up.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

More filter options for the QUERY ACTLOG command

The ACTLOG table/view contains around 14 fields and the majority of these have corresponding options which can be used to filter the output of QUERY ACTLOG. For example MSGNO=, NODENAME=, SESSNUM=. However the list of fields that can be used as fi...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

add sort options to mmbackup

mmapplypolicy knows some command line options to control the sorting, namely [--max-sort-bytes MaxBytes] [--other-sort-options SortOptions] [--sort-buffer-size Size] [--sort-command SortCommand] Unfortunately mmbackup does not offer any of these. ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Disk Drives/Hardware Components - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Functionality already exists

Better client messaging for unsuported node replication settings needed

A better client messaging is needed to better find the root cause of incorrect node replication settings.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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