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Support for SP container pool storage tiering in SPP

For customers performing storage tiering between directory and cloud container pools within SP, they would like to SPP to be aware and support this functionality. For now data that has been tiered affect the primary source pool and prevent it from...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SPP vSnap Storage Utilization report needs to run Storage Server Inventory Job automatically

When the Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting generates a report for vSnap Storage Utilization it does not use the vSnap Storage statistics from the moment the report is generated. Instead it uses the statistics of the last run of the Storage Server In...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SP Protect Plus support for backing up DB installed in power LPARS

to accelerate the SP Protect plus adoption in customers is required that the product be able to backup DataBases running in Power AIX Logical Partitions.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

support hole punching

We're seeing requests for customers running Commvault that they need support for hole punching to free up space in already allocated files. Please support deallocating space in files trhough the FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE flags o...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

SVC management GUI does not select the config node by default

When we open the SVC management GUI and go to the screen named “Download Support Package” (where we can view or create support logs), the GUI has pre-selected a view that shows a list of available files. Usually the SVC node that is selected for v...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Improve performance in mmrestripe

Mmrestripe operation encounters slow performance in ESS tracked under PMR 85092-227-000. The action plan is to increase the pitWorkerThreadsPerNode value manually. This RFE is to improve the performance of restripe. The development team suggests t...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

HUB scalability

This is a request to improve the parallelization of spoke data ingest and processing on hub servers. There appears to be a single-threaded component, or some sort of processing bottleneck.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Support GPFS on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and future LTS releases

Support Ubuntu LTS releases in addition to Debian
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Support for Ontap 9.5 with BA Client

There is no documentation for support of BA client backups of Ontap 9.5 on NetApp appliances. The highest mentioned is Ontap 9.3 supported bu 8.1.4. I have a customer that is about to migrate to a new data center and as part of this move replace t...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Multiple callhomes on a single device failure open new PMRs each alert

Title: Multiple callhomes on a single device failure open new PMRs each alertTCC Client Owner: Jason Robinson, TysonPriority: HighProblem description: Multiple callhomes on a single device failure open new PMRs each alert. The process should assoc...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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