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    Spectrum Protect for Virtusl Enviroments

    Hello, The tech note tells me do not backup the guests using one schedule due to the 512 charter limitation. We want to use one schedule. Currently TSM for VE backup schedules will only backup one schedule at a time, if the schedule doesn't comple...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    TDP for Oracle Parallel Backup to Multiple TSM Servers

    Backup/restore performance in TSM TDP environments can be increased through the addition of TSM servers that rman uses for backups and restores. A solution that does not require manual scripting would make this functionality easier to use and offl...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    SPP BUG - Unable to remove a Schedule from a Report

    After defining a schedule on a report, the schedule cannot be removed. If you 'untick' the schedule there is no option to click 'Save'.For custom reports, the workaround is the delete the report and start again, but for the default reports there i...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

    Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    compressed volumes copy count in lsiogrp

    The "compressed volume copy count" is restricted by an io_group. But one needs several commands (with filter) to get the "compressed volume copy count" per io_group. It would be nice if another column added to the command "lsiogrp" with a counter ...
    about 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Make volume mappings read-only

    For optimal backup of vmware virtual infrastructures the backup proxies (OS: Windows) need direct access to vmfs volumes over san. A small miss configuration/bug of a windows proxy host has a big chance of loosing the complete vm environment throu...
    about 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Include SNMP agent's IP address ( Strowize cluster IP) into SNMP trap

    Our client use the SNMP agent IP address to filter the SNMP trap. But our Storwize systems are not send the IP-address with the SNMP trap. All other systems from IBM and other vendors send the IP- address within the trap. We know that the SNMP V2 ...
    about 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) - SP for VE support

    My customer has deployed a new vCenter on Amazon Web Services, using VMWare on Cloud (VMC) as hypervisor. They are already migrating onpremise production machines to this environment, but even following KB https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/10...
    almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    FS900 attribute "-rebuildpriority hostmax" works out well for client = Can this attribute be implemented in FS7200 , as client was looking for this option in FS7200 ( A LUG requirement )

    Pls consider this request as Urgent/High priority FS900 attribute "-rebuildpriority hostmax" works out well for client = Can this attribute be implemented in FS7200 , as client was looking for this option in FS7200 ( A LUG - Large User Group requi...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Restore by Tag

    Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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