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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 ...
about 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.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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

Storage Fusion SDS edition backup administrator account segregation

Our customer Euro Information is a very large banking company. They have very strict administrative accounts policies and strong RBAC management in place. In the recent past, they rejected any software or hardware product that is not compliant wit...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Show zHyperlink performance details in DS8K GUI

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

Support export node when using directory container storage pools

Simpler way to move data from one SP server to another versus node replication, also support export node ti filedev class.The command export node today runs but in actlog all files present that it is not allowed, the command should have resturned ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Official support for the Workaround of disabled EFS (Encrypted File System) for Exchange DAG restore operations is needed

In our environment, activating the EFS is not allowed. If EFS is not enabled, the restore of Exchange DAG databases does not work. IBM has provided us with a workaround where a JSON file (SPAgent_cfg.json) is placed in the directory "C:\Program Fi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Backup Direct to Tape

Need the ability for clients to leverage existing infrastructure such as tape libraries they have bought and allow Spectrum Protect Plus to offload directly to tape.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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