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Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

NDMP to TSM-Server (NAS filer to server) - enable simultaneous write

NDMP data transfers from NSeries (Netapp) Filers over TCP/IP (NAS to TSM Server Storage) currently does not support simultaneous write into primary and copy storage pools. It seems that the autocopy function is ignoring NDMP/TCP-IP data during ing...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Progression of manual backup/restore in DP for Exchange GUI (Task Details)

We have had several customers complain that "Task Details" in DP for Exchange GUI are not updated until a task finishes.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Requesting export and import of metadata ability to second Spectrum Discover instance.

Requesting a method of exporting the metadata database out of Spectrum Discover to a second Spectrum Discover server. This is of interest when there is a desire to share select parts of the metadata via a Spectrum Discover system without connectiv...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize Upgrade Utility is not aware of invalid multipathing configrations before upgrade

The SVC/Storwize/Virtualize Upgrade Utility does not check to see if proper multipathing is in place before code upgrades. This is a massive effort and could be done from the storage side by checking the number of host facing paths seen by the dev...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC Does not warn of logical path loss to hosts

SVC Logical Path Loss. The Storage Admins are not aware of a SVC Logical Path loss. The Storage Admin is reactive when this happens due to not being alerted of the issue. Unable to be proactive and when server losses sight of storage. If Storage i...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TS4500 multipath support for RoCE drives

TS4500 supports TS1160-E drives with RoCE enabled however multipath and path fail-over is not supported when using Ethernet devices. The library and lin_taped support multipath for FC, RoCE is supposed to allow leverage of Ethernet environment how...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

VDisk Mirror monitoring events

Customer is requesting the addition of events for situations when SVC cannot update a vdiskcopy of a mirrored vdisk anymore. Furthermore TPC should capture and ad a constraint for those events, so that an admin can look at a constraint violation r...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Add a dictionary search

We can already use regex to inspect documents and add tags to them. But is there a more convenient way to add whole dictionaries? I would like to add the following functionality: We define a dictionary called "Hamburg" with hundreds or possibly th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Linux In-Guest Application Consistency

This enhancement request describes an important and very customer relevant improvement of the backup mechanisms of Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSMfVE) and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCMfVE). The existing support to gene...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration