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    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 ...
    almost 10 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 ...
    almost 10 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 ...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Journal Based Backup Identification

    Request is to be able to identify nodes using journal based backups from a query to the Spectrum Protect Server
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enhanced SVC GUI Performance Monitoring

    From customer :CPU It would be nice to see breakdown across iogroups and nodes to show any imbalances Vdisk metricsHere it would be nice to be able to drill down to a vdisk levelThe ability to break down vdisk metrics to host level. Mdisk metricsT...
    about 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Log failed commands in auditlog or syslog

    We are increasingly working with applications that "talk" to the SVC (and FlashSystems). In case of problems, we try to find out which commands these applications used.Commands that have failed are not logged, while this can be important informati...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    Option to exclude VM folder in DOMAIN.VMFULL

    DOMAIN.VMFULL all-vm;-vmfolder=DR-Machines,*TEST* -vmfolder will work in the same way as "-vm" excluding certain folders or folders containing som word
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

    Documentation for HMC password change

    For security concern, it is needed to change the default password of all the HMC of a ESS storage appliance.I didn't find any documentation to follow for this task. I was able to modify the HMC passwords through the HTTP interfaces. With the IBM s...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Need Practice Volume Support for SVC GM with Change Volumes

    Need the ability to have CSM manage copysets in SVC GM that include change volumes and practice volumes.
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

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