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move stgpooldir command

I'd like to se a command likemove stgpooldir <oldstgpooldir> <newstgpooldir>that move all containers in one stgpooldir to another automatiacally and in the background.or change the move container command to accept wildcard and a maxnum...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP support for Tanzu environments

backup/restore support for K8s running on Tanzu (PVC and etcd etc.) with SPP
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Node replication based on managementclass or storagepool

Currently node replication can only be issued on a node/filespace basis and backup/archive data. A big global bank has the requirement to replicate all data cross country which are older than 5 years. The data can't be distinguished by filespace o...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via OC

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via Operations Center
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SPP Container backup support unsupported storage class exclusion

We wish to have a better exclusion feature for currently unsupported storage classes.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to track licensing of SCU and TiB in Storage Insights

With the move to adopt SI and eliminate the need for an on-prem Spectrum Control instance, one area that we cannot track in SI is Licensing. Today in Control we can list out all 4 tiers and usage of SCU and TiB. This report is useful for yearly su...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus native application-aware snapshot/recovery support of Google Cloud Platform VMs

Support for SPP to snapshot/recover Google Cloud VMs via API (like VMware VM support). Need capability of installing both the SPP server and vSnap in GCP.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
9 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

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