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Policy Overview

Protection by policy shows number of VMs protected, but doesn't allow further investigation. Should be able to click on policy and see associated VMs.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SI/SC makes reconciliation between custom and default alert policies different

SI and SC do not allow for modifying default alert policies; customer modifications require creating new policies.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Inherited VM options on a per backup policy level

Backup policies defined on a per tag basis are allowed to inherit the parent options associated with the tag (i.e. defining proxy server, snapshot retries, application/filesystem consistency, etc.). As these options get defined for a single tag, t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Support for additional third-party filers

SI has fairly limited support for third-party filers.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

Report sorting/filter options so we can view scheduled jobs or by other custom group

With the ever growing list of reports that are being created it is getting a bit of a hassle to find the report I need. I think we need to be able to filter by active/scheduled and also by a "folder" for use as a client,manager,team, etc. It could...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Bare Metal Restore (BMR) from backupsets

I get confirmation from developer that we have no valuable workaround with the WINPE + ASR method . We will update the WINPE document .As said before you must open a RFE if you need this functionality to be added in the future.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Report Enhancement giving more detailed into

I believe a report is neaded the gives more details. This is the info that I would like to see in a single report:1. The full path to the VM that is displayed under the "Search for..." box in SPP panels such as: Manage Protection - Virtual Systems...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need to be able to move data between container pools

Need to have the ability to move data between container pools as needed. This includes: Directory to DirectoryCloud to CloudCloud to Directory
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Insights NAME field to reflect HMC NAME field or add it into Insights

It has come to our attention that the NAME field within Insights is actually a reference to the VOLSER from the HMC system. This i s normally not a problem, except on a multi-client box where we put the client name/code in the NAME Field. Without ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration