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MDISK removal advanced features

It would be great to be able to tune rmmdisk performance, I mean, selecting all mdisks to remove from a pool and ensure a few things: 1.- Do no write extends on mdisks that have been also selected for removal, it has no sense to put workload in md...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Report or chart that shows SVC node/IOgroup balance at a glance

To better balance the workload across IOgroups, it's important to see the # of hosts, IOPS, throughput, etc. that each IOgroup is handling. Need a report that shows the IOgroup workload for all 4 IOgroups side-by-side in an SVC cluster. This helps...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Improve Retension Policies

Improve SPP retention policies.Make them similar to classic TSM. (1) Option to always keep last X copies - this means that if the backup fails to run, it does not expire your existing backups. We have been in a situation where SPP was down for 2 w...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Reorg of the container files

Because we must delete 800.000.000 million orphaned chucks on two TSM servers there is coming many free storage in the container files but all the filesystems are 97% filled. If we can do a reorg then the filesystems can we schrink.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SPP agent for file backups

Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

High availability support for vsnap

VSNAP and VADP proxy high availability (clustering ) support. We need to extend the clustering support already available for SPP server to VADP Proxies and Vsnap servers, in combination with HW storage sharing
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Capacity-less child pools to use for QoS

Allows the use of QoS settings for pools of volumes to be different than other pools of volumes. This could be used for prod vs non-prod, or broken up by different business units for a customer.
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins You should be able to add something like the below as an example. Last Backup Completed Successfully - Yes/NoLast Backup Completed At - 01/01...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

move retention data from one storage pool to another

It's not currently possible to move retention data from one storage pool to another. It is possible to move retention data to different volumes in the same storage pool. LTO9 tape volumes. That said, this might be a little more difficult to do wit...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Pct Util calculation needs to either show more decimal places, or otherwise somehow scale based on larger possible volume sizes

Regarding case TS012335757, due to the large size of the volumes, Pct Util was showing 0.0, but there was actually data stored there. This led to confusion over why the volumes were not returning to scratch. As an example, 2.5GB on a 1TB tape show...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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