IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Restore VM with excluded hard disks requires to much space on datastore

    I want to restore a VM under a new name and exclude all data disks from that vm for the restore. Only the disk containing the operating system should be restored. When I invoke that restore with the option "vmdk=Hard Disk 1", only the VM and the d...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Support for additional third-party filers

    SI has fairly limited support for third-party filers.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

    define clientaction - change of default values

    The define clientaction command, if executed without any parameters, starts an incremental backup on all nodes in all domains. This is potential risk because the administrator can make a mistake and press enter key before entering any parameters. ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

    Change to TSM Client Code Deployment

    Currently the TSM Client Deployment package is coded to check for 2GB of free space on the c:\ drive of a Windows client node. If it is not available the TSM client code will fail to install. The current auto-deployment package for 64bit Windows i...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    Gui Enhancements - additional reporting fields

    5. Would like the GUI to include the following enhancements: a. Host Tab - Need the ability to quickly identify per host the number of io groups in use, which io groups are in use, and the volume counts for that host in each io group with option t...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    SVC - Ability to downgrade Code level or Revert to previous code level

    During the upgrade process at the end there is a final step to commit to system. Would like an enhanced feature that allows for the previously installed code level to be maintained and provide an option to role the code back should issues be encou...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Passwordless db2 upgrade

    During IBM SP Server upgrade, from the version 8.1.11.0 DB2 SP instance credentials has to be validated due to DB2 major update.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Refresh States function should function when devices are in severe status

    During a recent issue where CSM lost access to the underlying DASD (due to a warmstart), it marked some of the replicated devices in a Severe state. That state never changed, even after issuing a 'Refresh States' command. You can submit a START or...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

    Host across ownership group

    Customer replaced A9000 with FS9500 and runs into this issue: on SpVirt, the host object is part of the ownership group (tenant domain) (<> A9 did not consider hosts as part of the 'tenancy domain'). There is a manual workaround (chghostcl c...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    SP server output file ownership/permissions

    SP can output several types of files. For example, DRM recovery plans, backing up devconfig or volhist, select command output, etc. We can already control where to direct the output, i.e., directory structure and filename. Having the ability to al...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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