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GUI snapshot deletion from oldest to newest

Due to inode manipulation, it is a best practice and less effort to the GPFS to delete the oldest snapshot first. However, when doing the snapshot deletion manually, in the client using the GUI, it should also order it from oldest to newest.This w...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Seamlessy convert subtree into (independent) fileset

add a command to convert a subtree to an independent fileset seamlessly (without interrupting access for users) and - as a bonus - vice-versa
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap

SPP doesn't support re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap in the event of primary vSnap pool corruption/data loss. A full baseline backup is initiated if backups pointed to secondary or to a new built primary vSnap.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

CBR3750I message issued during service prep mode, because of service prep mode

When a TS7700 cluster is put in service prep mode for maintenance (RCL, for example), it ignores that it is in service prep mode and continues to issue CBR3750I message as if it was not. Some of those CBR messages generate false positive ticket an...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Logging for when a host exceeds its Throttling limit

Currently when a host exceeds it's Throttling limit there is no logging to inform us a host has hit its limit. With old XIV's and the A9K arrays, whenever a server hits its QOS limit, we would get an Event and could then investigate why a server w...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enable individual throttling for Replication and Cloud copy jobs. Also add support for Internet Proxy for Cloud offloads.

We use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offload (copy) to Cloud feature in addition to Replication (another copy) to a IBM Spectrum Protect (classic) repository server for a subsequent tape backup. Due to a huge volume of data already being backed up by ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect KMIP support for encryption

Basically requesting SP products compatibility with KMIP when using Spectrum Protect products built-in encryption capabilities.We are seeing encryption demands more and more every day and most of time customers want to have a unified encryption ke...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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