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Production restore folder

"Restore in production mode if Vcenter is down" option works but this restore creates a directory in the datastore with the name of VM. If the VM folder is not identical to VM name, the production restore doesn't maitain the original name.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership

IBM Spectrum Protect Server v8.1.9.300:Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership Currently, the replicate node command works on node names, lists of node names, wildcards of node names, node groups, or lists of node groups. We wish...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

SPP - Support for Centrify dzdo where sudo is called

Spectrum Protect Plus has a requirement for the Linux sudo command to be present for installation and configuration tasks. My customer has a security requirement where sudo commands are not allowed. Customer uses Centrify dzdo to provide the eleva...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CLI to set Restful API requests limits

As for now request limits for restful API are hard-coded in SVC. See table in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sanvolumecontroller/8.5.x?topic=svc-spectrum-virtualize-restful-api. For some use cases it makes sense to set the limits higher to enable aut...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Spectrum Storage Insights Pro on-prem array access credentials protocol requested

RPQ required for Spectrum Storage Insights Pro. The storage system credentials are required for Storage Insights to be able to collect data. These credentials are encrypted before being stored in the Storage Insights database, and the databases it...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Use Volume Groups for host mapping

Volume groups have become more and more useful for new functions such as SafeGuarded Copy, Snapshows 2.0 and regently Policy Based Reprication. While some customers my not be able to utilize the new functions new or when they start with a new flas...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

allow group pools to be used as the DEFAULT placement policy

If the default placement policy. If a disk pool is allowed as the default rule there should never be a "no free space error" when attempting to write a new file.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

resync backup after loss of the cbt

The vmware backup mechanism is based on the vmware CBT to make incremental backups. After an esx crash, the cbt is reset and a FULL backup is made (new base backup). a resync backup feature will be helpful this would take a lot of time to resync b...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Contol and Dell/EMC VPLEX

We would like to Spectrum Control to monitor Dell/EMC VPLEX. We use SC to monitor most of our IBM Storwize/SVC installations. We use performance monitor to look at performance statistics and array monitoring for alerting, reporting and billing. We...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

CSM to include text of event in email subject for email notifications

It would be very helpful if the email notifications from CSM could include not just the event code, but the text of the event in the email subject.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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