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Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Buffered log design Enhancement to take advantage of the 65 GB virtual volumes

The majority of TS7700 customers are using in the Data Class setting for Virtual Volume Sizes the default 3490 Counters Handling of “Surface EOT”.There are various reasons why a customer does not want to switch to “Wrap Supported” e.g., they back-...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Provide Notification When PPRC link failure rate is high on all PPRC paths

We recently had a WAN issue where one of the circuits was experiencing very high packet loss for carrier A. Even though there was a second healthy circuit provided by carrier B, the failure rate was so high on carrier A's circuit that all PPRC pat...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

IBM Redbooks for IBM Spectrum Protect / IBM SpectrumProtect Plus

There are no longer IBM Redbooks for this product available. The education budget was shrinked and the Admin Guide was removed. Where should customers get information how to work with this product
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

DB2 on zLinux backup & restore

Request for Spectrum Protect Plus to backup and restore DB2 databases running under zLinux
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SNMP monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

We would like to store all our archive data on a S3 AWS cold tier target.

We have a use case in our environment for sending our archive data to a cloud container pool that would exist on the Spectra Logic BlackPearl device that supports AWS cold tier functionality. With an S3 cold tier cloud container option we would no...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Storage Scale support only Rsyslog for log monitoring instead of syslog-NG

Storage Scale supports only Rsyslog for log management, but has several security risks. The better solution would be support for syslog-NG
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Automate scan and fix of "unavailable" containers for Spectrum Protect servers

Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot ----------------------...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

Allow editable threshold settings and client and/or type of client exceptions for security notifications

Please make the thresholds for Operations Center Security notifications an editable setting. We have hundreds of security notifications daily that are not being reviewed since we can't manage them. Also many are API clients, which would typically ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

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