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    Enable selective VMDK based restore for "Production Restore (Disk Replace)"

    Starting with version 10.1.7 it is possible to restore only the VMDK's of a VM without restoring the configuration data of the VM.This restore mode is named "Production Restore (Disk Replace)". This restore mode does a restore of all VMDK's of a V...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    make tags avaiable on the storwize that could be used to add volumes to applications groups in insight

    we are separating volumes on storwize/fs systems. we are putting them in application groups by os, so we can monitor performance. groups are vmware aix ibmi the problem is adding new volumes on the array, does not add them to the application group...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Protocols - NFS rolling update along with Active Directory

    Customer is having NFS being autheticated my MS AD. In this case SMB service needs to be installed and according to documentation, NFS outage is done when upgrading protocol nodes. Customer is requesting non-disruptive NFS protocol nodes upgrade a...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Ability to restore an Oracle DB to a single host in a RAC cluster

    Basically, we need to be able to select one member of a cluster as a restore destination.
    7 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Support for ERP SAP HANA for RHEL 9 on Power LE

    "Currently, only Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1.11 exists, which is more than two years old, and supports RHEL 8 on Power Little Endian. However, support for SAP HANA on RHEL 9 on Power is now necessary."
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Under review

    Addition of reclaimable space on lsvdiskanalysis and/or GUI volume properties

    With the avenue of reclaim_se utility to automatically reclaim capacity of thin vdisks part of standard pools, clients are starting to ask support at times regarding the reclaimable capacity on their volumes. The command lsvdiskanalysis, from clie...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

    Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

    After a HyperSwap, the command "Start H2->H1" (Start H1->H2 respectively) will fail if there a active Concurrent Copy Sessions on secondaries (former primaries). CSM will show error IWNR2108E RC 0F13. We know IBM recommends to eliminate any ...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Three site Async Replication - Spectrum Virtualize

    The customer requirement consists of an application that needs to be in a 3-way async replication configuration between their 3 data centers which are outside of Sync distances.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Automating the management of certificates on devices

    The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

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