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HYDRA encryption managed by the SMS constructs

Protecting data through encryption can be set on a per pool basis, which enables you to encrypt all or some of your data when it is written to the back-end tapes on TS7720, or for the whole disk cache. Customer would like to have encryption manage...
about 10 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

V7000 needs more flexible cache allocation options

The caching algorithm does not have enough flexibility in assigning cache to storage pools. I would like to see selectable options: 1) Current (equal percent across storage pools) 2) Percentage based on amount of storage in the storage pool vs ove...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SP Recovery Agent Session Selection Saving

When you utilize "IBM Spectrum Protect Recovery Agent" and configure a "New IBM Spectrum Protect server ..." under the "IBM Spectrum Protect Server" section, it will override any previously configured servers (removes any previously configured ser...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SyncMirror rate value does not make sense.

During volume copy i was working with the Mirror Sync rate value once again.The value can be set from 1 to 100.Most people would say that would be 1 to 100%.So the value 50 would be 50% of the total available mirror sync rate speed.But that's not ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TS3500 (3584) time synchronization (NTP)

We have a TS3500 Tape Library and we can not set the date & time synchronization to the company's internal NTP server, there is no such option on the Web-based Administration Interface.Please give us an advice how to do this or please enhance ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Request to run TSM Server on Solaris11

We want you to add Solaris11 as a supported platform for TSM Server.In FUJITSU business negotiations, there are many requests to runTSM Server on Solaris11. However, at present TSM server does not support Solaris11 as a supported platform. For thi...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Strowize/SVC GUI "Configure Storage" wizard to show projected Pool Usable Capacity per user selections

Enhance Strowize/SVC GUI "Configure Storage" wizard to show projected Pool Usable Capacity per user selections, will allow the user to see the resulting Usable Capacity of the Pool prior to its Creation.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Restore to Alternate Location Options

Restoring a VM to an alternate location is lacking sufficient details and options to allow for a prompt and quick restore.1. The drill-down provided goes from data center to ESX host and then to data store. I believe another option to select a clu...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Easytier PROD,DEV,TEST

Allow tier participation, selection by LUN. Today, each LUN can only be selected easytier on/off.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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