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SPP within the Federal Market

Within the Federal Market, we are unable to sell Spectrum Protect Plus as it uses the CentOS as its base OS. CentOS is not able go through the DOD Security Technical Implementation Guide process (STIG) to identify vulnerabilities for the OS or the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Replicate VSNAP SQL log backups

A job of type "Replication" was triggered and ended with failed status: "CTGGA0289 Skipping volume spp_1056_2111_1719AE68699 because there are no new snapshots since last backup". However, the job replicated the snapshot volume that stores the SQL...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Openshift-image-registry to be Included in Backup

Fusion UI does not display the namespace openshift-image-registry which is required during Recovery of Full Cluster.
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

SPP report creation

Spectrum Protect Plus has very interesting reports, but we need some individual views in virtual machine backup. We need to know, for example, the time and end of the backup of a respective VM individually and not just the time that the total SLA ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

From the GUI of "DiamondBack", monitoring the current drive's transmission speed

Firmware : 2.9.0.4-B00.00 Hello.The customer of the equipment wants to monitor the transmission speed in real time with the GUI.I looked around the GUI to satisfy the customer, but it doesn't seem to have the functionality they want. The GUI doesn...
6 months ago in Tape - Ultra Density 0 Future consideration

SpVirt cluster-wide throttle definitions

Host throttling operates at the node level and therefore applies only to the volumes in that IO group. Need to be able to define a cluster-wide throttle.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

VM's Removing from SLA

We have identified and issue where VM's are automatically removing from SLA due to xyz reason and got to know this is as per design. So we should have some info report where we can see how many VM's removed automatically from SLA after last backup...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Show the sum of used capacity when selecting multiple volumes via GUI

When selecting multiple volumes via GUI, show the sum of Used Capacity for the selected volumes, along with the Capacity that is already displayed today.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Bring back the Spectrum Protect Web Client

What was our main way of doing restores and manual backups is now gone. For over twenty years I have used tsm - spectrum protect and using the web client which was big part of that time. Without it we have to remote desktop to servers taking away ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Historical data on vSnap utilization

Customer requests the ability to have historical report of vSnap storage utilization over time (i.e. past 90, 365 days or greater). The report should show changing vSnap utilization and compression / deduplication ratios broken down into a chart o...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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