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    add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

    The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 3 Planned for future release

    Proxmox VE - Backup with Storage Defender Data Protect

    Allow Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox Virtual Environment without the need for an agent. This integration is requested by customers and included in RFPs to ensure the capability of performing VM-consistent backups and fa...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Dark site - Airgapped installation of S. Defender

    There are multiple situations where SaaS deployment cannot be done per security restrictions. We need an option to have S.Defender control plane deployed onprem as not always cloud deployment is possible
    over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot should recognize AIX LVM mirror setup after restore

    The customer operates multiple IBM Db2 databases on the AIX platform using LVM mirrored volumes.For performance reasons, specific LV to hdisk mappings are configured inside of the volume groups.Snapshot backups are created by IBM Spectrum Protect ...
    over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum CDM Deployment on MS Hyper-V Virtualization

    We're working with LULU for their SAP HANA requirement and proposing Spectrum CDM to fulfill their App/DB consistent snapshots for the mentioned retention period here Every 2 hours snapshot for Prod Infra with 7 days retention (12x7= 82 flashcopie...
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

    Defender data Protect KVM Support

    Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    IBM CDM and IBM Sentinel with central management across multiple sites

    Most european customers running a separation between primary and backup data centers. IBM CopyDataManagement + IBM Sentinel should be able to work and manage SnapShots across multiple sites. IDEA and REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT An application-consiste...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Call home for Storage Defender

    IBM Storage Defender does not yet have an integrated call home solution to send hardware logs to IBM Support and thus facilitate the replacement of defective equipment. In this case, I suggest creating a solution that identifies if the client is u...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    Support TSM Storage Agent to be used in virtual machines for "Serverfree" backup to shared disk

    IBM GPFS is a supported file system for performing "server free" backups to shared disks (similar to LANfree backups, which are going from a TSM client system with TSM for SAN directly to a tape). At the moment, this method (Server free backup to ...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot - Support with HyperSwap Volumes

    Hi Team I have a customer who is looking for support for FlashCopy Manager (Spectrum Protect Snapshot) with HyperSwap volumes. From the link below I see that it is not currently supported:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21455924 T...
    almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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