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Need support of Power 8/9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under 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

Support for AWS Outposts with FlashSystem Storage.

Currently NetApp and Pure Storage seem to be the only vendors which do support this on-premises delivery model for Amazon. If we had support for this as part of the FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize portfolio, our Business Partners would have an IBM ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

To simplify the deployment of workloads in the cloud, IBM must improve the performance of the Scale command "mmaddnode" to allow for faster spin up/down of resources.

Nodes in the cloud need to be spun up quickly as needed. Currently mmaddnode takes too long to add a significant number of nodes as it sequentially adds nodes to the cluster; not only that, but other commands like mmchlicense, mmchnodeclass, and m...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

vSnap – zfs enhancements

vSnaps of SPP are build with zfs. zfs provides management capabilities like enlarging virtual disks, moving data from one virtual disk to another, .... standard LVM stuff vSnap does not support. The only mechanism vSnap support is "add virtual dis...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Implement certificate validation

Currently certificates are not validated. If a corrupted/defect certificate is uploaded, the library just accept it, and the gui will be broken/not accessible any more. The only way to fix this is to directly access the gui via the panel on your (...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Fusion Backup and Recovery - Restore single files from VM backup

We would like to implement single file restore for Fusion Backup Restore. Today we are required to restore to a separate namespace and copy files as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion-software/2.8.x?topic=virtualization-ba...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

NFS protocol nodes upgrade without disruption

Customer is having NFS being autheticated my MS AD. In this case SMB service needs to be installed and according to documentation, NFS outage is done when upgrading protocol nodes. Customer is requesting non-disruptive NFS protocol nodes upgrade a...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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