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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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

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

REST API for TS7700

We would like to have an option to check the configuration of a TS7700 with an automated script. What pools, SMS constructs, how many volsers, etc. are configured.We have good experiences in REST API with DS8000 and would like to have a REST API i...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

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 a 64K vdisks

I would like to suggest to expansion of the quantity of supported vdisks to 64.000 logical address. More than one customer here (@ Brazil) bring this kind of specification in their RFPs and/or Public auctions, what reflect in a lot of work to unde...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Possibility to choose which events are send to external sylsog server /CLI command enhancement

At the moment, we can send logs to an external server. It contains some information as listed in the manual - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/9.3.3?topic=configuring-syslog-server. I would like to be able to select which events need to be sent ...
8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Log events when there are high numbers of CRC errors recorded on FC ports, low SFP power.

Large amounts of crc errors or FC ports with low power will impact the ability to serve data to hosts. We had a very obscure issue recently that was caused by a san switch SFP that had low TX power. Deep in the logs of the storage, there were erro...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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

Monitoring and Alerting Local Filesystems Usage in Advance for IBM 9500 Nodes

Recently due to Node error 565 "Node internal disk is failing" due to /dumps full getting we discovered the impact where the nodes to be rebooted due to nodes reported in service state.. panel_name cluster_id cluster_name node_id node_name relatio...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

IBM_INSTALL_fs_usage to made permanent to avoid Node issues in iBM 9500

FA utility was designed to report on the usage of /data filesystem so that you would be able to monitor for the situation you encountered on case TS017213594 related to defect SVAPAR-98497. But we noticed this not built-in and its custom utility w...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect