IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Alert for Consistency Group status change

    Product: Storage insight PROActor: users want to be alerted for GlobalMirror stoppedDescription: we want to have an alert for monitoring Global mirror status change. In details we want to be alerted when we a consistency group goes to stoppedstauts
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    IT Infrastruct Analyst

    Based on the case TS003038751, we would like to suggest the improvement in the product IBM Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisor inventory. When I have some host in "maintainance mode" in Vsphere environment the jobs show a lot warmings logs because o ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    syslog receiver for linux

    Feature to allow TSM to externalise events through a reciver that can put events into syslog without the need for external scripting.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    SVC Encryption Algorithm Not Shown in GUI/CLI

    After enabling SVC software encryption and encrypting all storage pools a customer requested that we provide a proof of encryption including algorithm used to encrypt data at rest. To our surprise SVC does not show algorithm used for the encryptio...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Data Shredding on Container Storage Pools

    In some multi-tenancy TSM environments using Container Storage Pools there may be a requirement to prove to a specific user that data belonging to a backup client has been deleted from the Storage Pool. Even after the reuse delay has elapsed, it i...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    TS7700 physical WORM

    Logical WORM protection in TS7700 protects virtual volumes from being modified or deleted from the host perspective. However, it does not provide a protection from physical damage of e.g. the cache. Once migrated to physical tape there is also no ...
    over 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    SVC SNMP alert repeat interval

    The SNMP alerts are currently re-issued periodically. This results in operations paging out the storage team each time. We would like a means to suppress subsequent reissued alerts once the primary alert has been delivered. The purpose of this is ...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Support to include/exclude Nested Vmfolders

    I was thinking of using VMFOLDER to select VMs. While trying to figure out the syntax for specifying a nested folder, the link (http://www-01. ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432938) was brought to my attention. Basically, TSM VE only allows ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Create empty nodeclass

    We need to create nodeclasses before we have nodes available to assign to the node class. This will allow us to set GPFS configuration for the nodeclass through our configuration management scripts and help ensure we have standardized configuratio...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    VSAN and Sp. protect for VE

    I need for a very big French customer that IBM spectrum Protect for VE VMware support backup / restore VM set up on VSAN
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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