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    VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

    During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Command to force Dynamic Pagepool to shrink to minimum size

    When utilizing the dynamic pagepool during IO operations, the pagepool automatically expands until possibly reaching its maximum allocated size. It then remains at that level, even after the IO operations have completed, until additional memory (m...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhancements to the Operations Center reporting

    The company is building executive reports using Spectrum Protect Operations Center. They have over 6000 nodes doing backups in 19 Spectrum Protect servers and management would like to have a view of some statistics for the whole environment. Today...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    Provide a replication status in the dashboard to verify vSnap replication is in sync/running etc.

    A status view is required to identify if vSnap replication is in sync / running / out-of-sync similar to the replication status view in the Operation Center for Spectrum Protect replication.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    possibility to add clients by nodegroup to copy storage subrule

    Currently you can only add single clients to a copy storage subrule . It would be comfortable to also have the possibility to add clients by nodegroup as an additional choice - like you can do with "def retrule".
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Oracle dataguard support

    We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Waiting for Winodws 2019 Server support for Spectrum protect server and BA client

    We need Windows server 2019 server support for the Spectrum protect for the TSM server installation and BA client as well
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    AFM Local Filesystem Caching Support

    Allow AFM to cache data from a "home" of a local filesystem mounted on a node. This could be a local filesystem on a single node or a shared filesystem such as HDFS fuse mounted or other mounted POSIX filesystem such as a Lustre/ZFS/XFS/etc...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    CLI access from Spectrum

    Currently, we can launch gui for the storage devices from spectrum control. It would also be useful to launch cli from here as well.
    5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    allow s3 nooba to upload user files to gpfs

    we have setup mmces S3 to allow users to write into an immutable fileset (Noncompliant Mode) for long term archiving their data. Listing and reading files from or even removing them in the fileset via S3 works as expected. But an upload of new dat...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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