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    ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

    It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    NFS V4.1 Support

    Need support for NVS V4.1
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect prevent massive deletion from client side

    In today's world, more than ever we are tracking any kind of destructive operation. Command approval feature recently added prevent the SP admin to do massive data deletion from server side but we are still lacking the same protection mechanism if...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus supporting SAP HANA

    Spectrum Protect Plus supporting backup and recovery of SAP HANA.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

    An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter Ther...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Official support for the Workaround of disabled EFS (Encrypted File System) for Exchange DAG restore operations is needed

    In our environment, activating the EFS is not allowed. If EFS is not enabled, the restore of Exchange DAG databases does not work. IBM has provided us with a workaround where a JSON file (SPAgent_cfg.json) is placed in the directory "C:\Program Fi...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Storage Protect Storage Agent should report all issue to the Storage Protect server activitiy log

    We run into a LANfree backup issue. Diagnosing the issue took a long time because the STA was not reporting the drive failures into the SP server activity log. Environment: SP AIX library manager (LM) server 8.1.21.0, SP server name LIBMGR. SP AIX...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Submitted

    Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

    With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Ability to monitor performance utilization. If a Datastore is performing too much IO, Add a mechanism to drill down to specific VM causing the performance impact within that datastore.

    Once vCenter is registered using “Add vCenter” successfully, corresponding hosts and virtual machines are listed (and can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu option). If user choose a particular “Virtual Machine “ it gives details , esp...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

    implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

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