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Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Space Management (HSM) for ppc (power) Linux

With the evolution of Spectrum Scale (esp. ESS) running on our ppc Hardware on Linux it is required to have this capability to reduce the number of objects to manage (i.e. an extra AIX or x86 system to handle the HSM migration out of ESS or other ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Support BSD groups semantics

Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same seman...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Include SW that looks to see if a health check has been done within 24-48 hours before allowing a Storage Scale SW upgrade

Ensures that a Storage Scale/ESS SW upgrade will not fail due to potentially failed boot drives or other drives/components having failed since the last health check, if the health check had been performed many days or weeks previously to the SW up...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Storage Insights should not report a node is in error status, if the cluster is being upgraded.

If a cluster is being updated, all of the nodes are going to be offline at some point. That is expected. One shouldn't receive a notice that "Storage System Node Status Is Error ". SI should know that an upgrade is being performed, so it doesn't n...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Additional parameter for repairvdiskcopy

Additional parameter "-stoplba lba" for "repairvdiskcopy" command needed: -stoplba lba(Optional) Specifies the last logical block address (LBA) on which to finish the command. The LBA must be specified in hex, with a 0x prefix.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus native application-aware snapshot/recovery support of Google Cloud Platform VMs

Support for SPP to snapshot/recover Google Cloud VMs via API (like VMware VM support). Need capability of installing both the SPP server and vSnap in GCP.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Verify Management Class Contraints on Node Migration

When moving/migrating a TSM node from one TSM domain to another, and in the target TSM domain the management class used in the source does not exist in its policiy definitions, the default management class is used. The fall back to the default man...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Introduce Data mobility - Ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another

Introduce Data mobility i.e. the ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another.This is so data can be easily managed and vSnap servers retired and added in an easier fashion
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via OC

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via Operations Center
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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