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The Protection summary screen shouldn't show the replica VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus "Protection Summary" screen shows our replica machines that replicated with Recover Point.This is a misleading situation. Both our machine count and the number of machines that are not backed up seem wrong.It needs to be fixed.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable. This would useful during production monitoring.
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect support for gluster filesystems

Spectrum Protect client should support the gluster filesystem.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Support for Ubuntu

Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

support cephfs with full ACL support

cephfs is a scalable filesystem with full posix campatibility. The need to support this filesystem with full ACL support is needed.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Enable REST via commandline

REST API has to be enabled using Open Webbrowser, Login, and Check the "Enable REST" Checkbox.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Managment: SAP HANA (system) connectivity should support SSH keys

As of today SCDM needs "user/password" credentials for its SAP HANA (system) connectivity. As this a security risk (and not allowed at our company anymore) the product should support SSH keys as system credentials. Since SCDM already has this for ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration