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Support for KVM

We see more and more activity where people are leaving VMware for something that are better and cheaper. So we see more offend companies that want to replace VMware with KVM/oVirt so they can combine it with Openstack or similar automated hypervisor.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Include the automatic Refresh States after an event "Hardware connection.... is now accessible (IWNH1038I)

After a hardware error in one of the device server of the Storage, CSM reported a communication errors and changed the replication sessions from Normal to Severe. However, for the Hardware Storage side, there was no replication impact, as the othe...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Support for RHEL 9

Now when SPP is not going to be future develop and we need to run a VMware Backups using Dark Site software we falling back to IBM Storage Protect for VMware and we have test it on a RedHat Enterprise Server 9.2 and it works fine accept the servic...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 3 Under review

Show zHyperlink performance details in DS8K GUI

Would be helpful in monitoring DS8K performance or in case of incident handling.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Allow the ability to run a report that will provide the differences between two policies

I need to track all of the customizations between the default policies and the custom ones. Right now, I need to document that by hand. It would be far better to be able to run a report and have it provide the information. I also could see the use...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Improve cancellation method of HSM TCT request when HyperSwap is attempted from HOST perspective

When HSM TCT requests get hung due to faulty network configuration, etc, ANTMAIN holds enqueue on PLANNED.HSWAP.plexname resource which causes planned hyperswap to fail unless ANTMAIN tasks are canceled. Request to improve cancellation method of P...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories

A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories, especially when an additional storagepool directory is added.Otherwise the Move Container scripts must be generated and started dy...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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