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    svc remote copy initialization enhancment (no zero block replication)

    On setting up a new remote copy relationship the volumes have to be synchronized initially. On large volumes (1TB and above) that are replicated over a long distance this can multiple days even if the source volume is thin provisioned and hardly u...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    mmbackup including "virtual domains"

    mmbackup on gpfs 4.1.1.2 with 69 EXCLUDE-statements needs a preparation time of > 2days.The scanning time to receive the inode-list in the /tmp-directory took about 2 hours.The main part of the additional time was needed for creating the weight...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    TS7700 should have different grid ports for Deferred work vs. sync & remote mounts

    We have a multiple site TS7700 configuration with multiple grids in each location. The majority of our cross site workload is deferred. However, we have some critical workloads that we need to sync across the distance. An example of this is the HS...
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    FCM: Central Management GUI

    The customer which are using FCM require a central management GUI to manage all FCM environments. In addition, it would be a good idea to integrate the gui with TSM. Also it is interesting because FCM under UNIX platforms don't have any graphical ...
    over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude node support on Install and deploy

    In an heterogene world of scale cluster we had more an more the requirement to install new nodes with higher versions of scale because of some dependencies of OS-Kernel-Levels. (ABI changes as example). We want the same function like exclude suppo...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude support on install and deploy

    In the heterogene world of scale cluster we see more and more an requirement to put different versions of scale because of new deployments of OS (rhel) and other decisions and dependencies.The current toolkit installation missed this feature to ad...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    FlashCopy Manager VMware In-Guest Support

    VMWare In-Guest Support for FCM. Install, handle and use FCM in virtual machines which are attached to storage subsystems (SVC, ...) with full functionality as on physical machines.
    over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Improve Host reporting in Spectrum Control

    Spectrum Control has some ability to report hosts that are making use of resources, such as volumes on a Spectrum Virtualize pool. But this reporting is not complete.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

    Eliminate duplicates in replication setup once valid copy exists on replication target server

    Successfull replication of data should be considered a valid copy (just as BACKUP STGPOOL to a copy pool) when running IDENTIFY DUPLICATES and DEDUPREQUIRESBACKUP is set to yes.
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect define replication server can use multiple ip on tsm server

    we want define replication server use multiple ip on tsm server . or can we use hostname for replication server and then add multiple ip resolve onetc/hosts ?
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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