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Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS)

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    Allowed DRS sources vs remote locations (ROBO)

    We currently have 2 onprem clusters for DP configured within DRS. We have those 2 discovered and scanning/reporting within DRS. We also added multiple Vcenter connections to DRS, which manages our clusters onprem as well as remote sites where ROBO...
    4 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Submitted

    Provide a way to acknowledge backup status of "Without backups" instead of using the Exclude button, which relates more to the Recovery Group feature.

    With DRS scanning our environments, it discovers VMs that are "Without Backups". Some are indeed to look at, but many are VMs that do not require backups. Test machines, lab servers, POC VMs etc. It would be nice to have a way to acknowledge this ...
    4 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    Provide, expose and document an external REST API for IBM Storage Defender DRS

    The lack of a published REST API in DRS makes it very difficult to integrate DRS with external processes and reporting tools. A REST API should be made available to allow customers to integrate reporting and automation tools with DRS to perform ta...
    19 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    Support Cohesity Data Protect as a backup source in DRS

    DRS currently support Defender Data Protect as a backup source in DRS and it should also support Cohesity Data Protect to broaden the scope of the solution.
    20 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Planned for future release

    Global Search of Storage Protect Servers from DRS

    Add as a capability in DRS for any connected Storage Protect server.
    3 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Disable attempts to cleanup IBM Flash array snapshots after Devender SAN backup/restore

    When the current version of Defender runs a backup or recovery operation for a SAN source, a snapshot will be created of the configured storage, the backup/recovery operation completed and then a cleanup of the snapshot is attempted. Normally this...
    4 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Offline/manual install of Defeder Sensors in VMs

    Defender Sensors are currently only installable from the DRS UI. Installation/upgrade from DRS require network connectivity and FW openings from the on-premises Connection Manager(s) directly or through a Defender Sensor Control node to the VM(s) ...
    5 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    Enable Password Expiry Visibility in Storage Defender

    Storage Defender currently lacks a feature to display or monitor password expiry dates for user accounts. This limitation affects all account types, including both individual user accounts and functional accounts used for automation and integratio...
    6 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Integration between Defender DRS and IBM Concert

    There is more and more focus on security, there is a need to automatic information gathering for everything that is helpful to manage CVE and Security Certificate (SSL/TLS) . DRS is being connected to different Data sources, from infrastucture com...
    7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Threat Detection Sensor OpenShift

    IBM FlashSystem has RTD based on FCM4, Defender uses Sensor (in file-system) to detect threats. We should have similar functions in containerized Envirnments (Openshift) to detect and report an early attack
    8 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

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