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Storage Copy Data Management

Registering Storage Virtualize Provider

Currently in order to register (as Provider) a Storage Virtualize or Storage VIrtualize for Snapshot the CDM identity is based on name/password credentials. It would be preferred to have user/certificate as a more secure alternative.
21 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Scanning AIX volumes

In AIX environments (including Oracle DBs with ASM) most of the attacks are lending to AIX volumes like boot and other. It would be advisable to allow Sentinel to scan them under Storage Virtualize for Snapshot backup jobs.
25 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Allow the scan job definition to automatically handle changes to the application instance name, eliminating the need for manual updates to the scan job definition

Currently the CDM scan job definition root selection has the server's name and instance name. This condemns us to change the CDM job spec every time that the source is updated (typically at least 2x per year). The scan job will fail if this is not...
about 1 month ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

CDM - VMware backup job - Whole datastore selected - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.

Possibility to scan whole datastore - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.
about 2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Ability to set an alternate directory for the creation of EPIC, iris.cpf file, within a properties file on the CDM server.

This ability will help us make better use of the CDM product and avoid failing or long running jobs.
3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Ability to set timeout value for importing volume group and file system mount operation within a properties file on the CDM server.

Currently the system lacks this capability, and our environment has on occasion situations that prevent these operations from completing before the hard-coded timeout expires. The ability to tune the time out will prevent the process from failing ...
3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Fail job when cleanup fails

Currently a CDM job will import file systems, scan for threats, and then remove the file systems. However, if the cleanup (removing file systems, removing volume groups/disks/etc.) fails, the CDM web site shows the overall job as a success. This c...
3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Disallow a CDM job to run if the same job is running.

The current CDM job for scanning will import disks/volume groups to an IBM AIX server, create NFS exports, NFS mount the jobs to the Linux Sentinel server and then run the IE scan on the mounted NFS disks. Once the scan is complete, the CDM proces...
3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Oracle on zLinux compatibility for IBM CDM

A client currently uses IBM FlashSystem in a VMware environment and holds a license for IBM Copy Data Management (CDM). However, they plan to migrate their primary workloads to IBM LinuxONE and adopt Oracle on zLinux as part of their future archit...
5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

When registering an SQL server source (single instance or AAG) allow both an OS login account and SQL account to be specified.

Within SQL server, you can allow authentication/authorization to be done via OS accounts (local or domain) OR only allow database tasks such as DBA roles be controlled by SQL Server accounts. Some organizations consider the latter to be more secur...
5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

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