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Support AWS PrivateLink for S3 bucket in Spectrum Protect

We use AWS PrivateLink, which allows AWS customers to send data to S3 over a site-to-site VPN and their VPC, instead of going over the public internet. AWS PrivateLink works by giving customers a personalized DNS address, which can be used to acce...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Provide connectivity from the CSM to the arrays when IP network is gone

In a worst case, Have the ability to perform a restore is the IP Network is unavailable. Have the ability to 'hardwire' a server running CSM to connect and communicate with the array to perform backup and restore.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center

HiI try to generate Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center but there is no monthly option available. Currently available options are either daily or weekly only. Would you please provide e-fix for the monthly option? My operati...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Pod placement on OCP infra nodes

Ability to schedule BaaS/SPP components inside Kubernetes/Openshift environments into dedicated nodes, based on placement rules.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Report to show backup storage by SLA

Report to show backup storage by SLA will helps us quickly check which SLA is taking up the most backup data
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support DELL ECS and other for S3 lock container

Give the Avaibility to add an S3 lock container on a Dell ECS solution to improve the security. Actually it's just possible to lock the data on COS or AWS.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPVE vCenter Backup Failure resolution

We are using SPVE to backup vCenter appliances. We frequently get timeout errors when creating snapshot. Would like some facility to resolve this issue, possibly an option to extend the timeout value.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Manual Installation SPP Plus Client

File System Inventory Failing to complete over the WAN. According to support this could due the low network bandwidth between the SPP Server and the remote client. I ask a procedure to manually install the client on the remote server and Support a...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Automate Kubernetes Integration (Installation, Configuration & B/R)

Currently, integrating and configuring Kubernetes Backup (PVCs) is a manual and complex step. It has to be done manually in the K8s cluster and requires a large bunch of preparations and various commands to be executed to get it integrated. Additi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Operation Center reports to be saved and duplicate a report template

Current version of SP OC interface doesn't allow to save report results . It has only email option.I have clients still using TSM ORT tool to save reports or email . Due the lack of save function within SP OC we can not utilise reporting.If we cre...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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