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Defender Data Protect/Replica

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    Minimal privileges for an SCVMM Cohesity agent service account

    To deploy the SCVMM Cohesity agent service an account with Administrator privileges is required. During operations the service is run using this account, and it must use the same Administrator privilege level to operate correctly. Using an account...
    about 1 hour ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    allow network endpoint address to be edited on an external source (S3).

    Currently, once you have defined an external source you can edit several parameters, but the endpoint address (network address/ip) cannot be changed.
    10 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Allow sources, policies, protection groups, etc. to be organized in a manner other than source type.

    Currently, as sources are defined, the way the information is displayed is by the type of source. So, all vSphere, SAN, SQL sources are displayed with the same type. This makes it difficult to find sources in a way meaningful to the operator. Idea...
    about 1 month ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

    allow a human-friendly label for backup sources

    Currently when defining a source for backup, the name of the source can be rather complex and not user friendly. This will vary depending upon the source type, but in some cases (such as Azure backup workloads), the source name is just a large com...
    about 1 month ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

    Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

    Idea: Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data...
    6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add the option to delete a description previously created

    Add the option to delete a description that was previously created when selecting an alert to resolve, since some descriptions may no longer apply or simply need to be removed. It would be great to also have the ability to delete any description t...
    11 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Improve Data Protect alert behaviors and information

    Defender Data Protect alerts currently trigger when the conditions set are met. They do not trigger when conditions are close to being met, nor do they provide details on where they currently are before being triggered. This idea is intended to im...
    23 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add an option to quorum groups

    We need to add the ability to select specific users for each rule to the quorum, not just the entire cluster. For example, we want to add a rule to restore VMs and Virtual Disks to a specific user group, not the entire cluster.
    6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Enable file and folder-level recovery of objects from AIX systems archived on IBM Storage Protect by using the IBM Storage Defender Data Protect object agent S3 interface

    Currently, file and folder-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archives AIX objects to IBM Storage Protect using its S3 tape storage interface. We request an enhancement to the...
    9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

    Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data Prote...
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

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