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Multi-Tenancy for Encryption Keys

Secure Multi-Tenancy:Each tenant's data is encrypted with an encryption key that is unique to that tenant, to cryptographically protect each tenant's data from all other tenants (e.g. if they inadvertently gained access to it).
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - G Suite support needed

We need local backup for ours users who has been migrate from Domino to G Suite.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Decomission of VM

We are waiting for documemtation on how Decomission of VMs work in SPP, Case number TS0008726 Typically we do see that customer want to do one of 3 things (in order of most common) when a VM is decomissioned:Store VM for a certain time, for exampl...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make VSNAP Application Independent of OS Kernel

ISPP VSNAP Application on Physical Server is bound to specific Kernel Version. Upgrade of Redhat Version cause Application to fail and it doesnot come up.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM recovery problem

Hypervisor vmvare.There is a VM with many connected disks, about 50 TB.Only disk 1 is backed up and needs to be restored.When we start recovery of only the first disk, the recovery mechanism checks for free space in the storage not for disk 1, but...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Add sender email address to Alert Notifications screen

Currently the CSM GUI configuration for Alert Notifications asks for the "Reply-to-address". This is not the same as the sender address but this subtle difference is easily missed (and if noticed there is no obvious way to specify the sender addre...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Need larger DB2 active log file size

While working on HADR, a DB2 specialist noted that DB2 under SP was archiving the active log at a higher than normal rate and recommended increasing the current DB2 LOGFILSIZ to make it ten (10) times larger. However, the customer was unable to ma...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI need to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen.

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy needs to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen. V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI now takes 16 keystrokes to view 7 consistency group freeze times. It takes 3 keystrokes to view one consistency group freeze...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Future consideration

mmhealth should complain about NSDs which have lost one path

Listing the NSDs shows that some of themhave only one path available. One of the two servers of a building block does not see the Volume:[root@justnsd01a ~]# mmlsnsd -f cesSharedRoot -X Disk name NSD volume ID Device Devtype Node name Remarks ----...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Set permission for support: with customized client message or schedule of when collection of support data is allowed

Currently client can define in “set permission for support” if he allows support to collect support data without asking the client in advance This new feature will allow customer to either set a customized message 1/ ““Please collect data via SI o...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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