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Add Expand capability for fully allocated hyperswap volumes

Recently an option was added (8.4?) to FlashSystem software (Storwize) allowing easy expansion of in-use Hyperswap volumes through the GUI. An unfortunate restriction of this for us was that it cannot be used with fully allocated hyperswap volumes...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Automate backup of cluster etcd

Using Fusion backup as a cluster level DR solution requires backing up the entire etcd data so the cluster can be rebuilt before using Fusion to redeploy the projects/namespaces. OCP 4.14 includes undated instructions on backing up and restoring a...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Tiering rules need more flexibility for Filesystem and/or type of data (Backup/Archive)

I would like to see the tiering rules to be able to be a bit more flexible. I have a node that has Backup and Archive data.Backup data is more often needed quickly so a backup location in ContainerPools is valid.The Archive data is kept 10 years a...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Fusion restore target can use GIU/UID difference than source

Fusion restore service will be able to restore a project namespace using a new set of GID/UID that may be different than the GID/UID used in the source. This can be useful in the event that the original GID/UID are already in use in the target clu...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Policy Based Replication Recovery Volume Names

We appreciate the simplicity of Policy Based Replication setup; however, we are in need of these two features to be added: 1. Allow custom naming of the recovery volumes. This is needed because we do not use the same system names between each site...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Customization of LDAP authentication in Spectrum Protect software

When using Spectrum Protect Plus with LDAP authentication, the group parameter that is queried is hard coded (objectClass=group).This objectClass "group" is not present on all LDAP servers.Please allow customization of group attribute (like object...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Be able to set default throttle or multiple throttle schedules (business hours or weekends, for example)

This request is to have the ability of creating different throttle schedules, or setting a default throttle.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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