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    Tape Library Support

    Add support for IBM tape libraries in Spectrum Control and Storage Insights to monitor code levels, performance of robotics, performance of tape drives and capacity of the library.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Planned for future release

    Have Volume Group next scheduled snapshot be DST aware

    When you have a daily snapshot policy setup for a volume group, the next scheduled snapshot is always 24 hours later. When daylight savings time is involved, this will lead to the snap shot being taken 1 hour later/earlier in the day (according to...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Incorporate CSR Generation Functionality into IBM TS7700 REST API

    The IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine, currently doesn't have the capability of generating CSR. The need for streamlined certificate management has become increasingly critical. Currently, generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for the TS77...
    7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP FOR PROTECT PLUS

    One of the most asked feature by business partners and customers is support of Active Directory backup and granular recovery of AD with Protect Plus. Almost every our competitor has AD backup granular recovery of its objects.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add a host to multiple host clusters

    It would be nice it I could add a host to multiple different host clusters. You can currently map a volume to multiple host clusters and it works. The reason for this request is to reduce the risk of human errors. Lets say that we have 3 different...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Ability to launch embedded command line shell from the GUI

    Most of the configuration work i do is performed via command line, it would be really useful to have the ability to launch embedded command line session/s from the service options menu, this way putty etc would not be required in a separate window...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    PBHA/R: increase total vol capacity

    There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of the replicated volumes (hidden volumes - change volumes - don't count towards this figure). Limit is reached in this 3-sit...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive

    In Baidu hyper scale tape storage system, we met many cases that good tape cartridges is marked to bad status because of bad drive. For example, drive1 is bad, Archive EE still uses it to write or read data and get the error result, Archive EE wil...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Fusion alternate namespace restores for Cloud Paks

    Customer query - Will CPD 4.8 support via Fusion a restore of the same instance into a new namespace within the source cluster? That means I have two instances in different namespaces within the cluster. This is a constant request from customers w...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1

    PBHA: Update location on a set of hosts at the same time

    use case: the customer wants to be able to change the host location; with 180 hosts, it's not feasible to do it manually; request a possibility to filter hosts based on volume name and then multi-select to adapt; if that's not possible, filter on ...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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