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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 15, 2020

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Add support for tape media partitioning

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With the ever increasing capacity of tape volumes collocation by node wastes more and more space for smaller nodes. Switching to collocation by group is not an option for us as we have thousands of nodes that are not in our direct control so we don't know beforehand which node gets big and which node gets small.

Jaguar and LTO provide the possibility to logical partition a single tape volume into multiple logical partitions. Spectrum Protect should support this partitioning feature for Jaguar and LTO to let us continue to use collocation by node while maintaining reasonable overhead.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 1, 2021

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 16, 2020

    sounds like a great feature
    can also improve the way how SPFS (a filesystem for Spectrum Protect) operates on tape too

    https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/gsd/solutiondetails.do?&solution=56435&lc=en

    Regards Tomas

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