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add ability to create certificate signing request to SP+ interface

The SP+ admin UI allows us to provide a real (non self signed ) certificate but does not provide a way to create a certificate signing request which is necessary to obtain a real certificate. We need a supported way to create CSRs
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

mmdf needs an option to not reach out to all remote clients

On our very large environment, mmdf will take hours to run. This is apparently because the ESS cluster will reach out to our thousands of remote clients to verify accuracy of its statistics. Worse the entire system slows down while this is occurri...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

excluded VMs in unprotected list

The Policy Overview should have a excluded VM resource in my opinion. Annoying having x number of Unprotected VMs reported every day when it is perfectly ok and should not be reported as an error.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Control: View Easy Tier Load Setting

Need the ability to see what the Easy Tier Load value is for SVC mdsisk.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

REST api for dsmadmc

We are doing some "automated" tasks in Spectrum Protect and we are currently doing it by calling dsmadmc.exe (and args). But starting such an process for every request is rather time consuming - and heavy cpu/memory on the Windows machine (having ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Thresholds for security notifications

The security notifications introduced in v8.1.5 for ransomware protection can't be tuned and are usually inadequate for volatile systems. After every client backup session, statistics are analyzed for signs of a ransomware infection (large increas...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - offloading data

The data offload/data copy options currently available in Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.7 do not offer enough flexibility in terms of what data types can be sent to what offload destination (cloud or repository server).If you also want to send SPP da...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Alert user when number of volumes assigned to a volume group is different than number of volumes assigned to host group

A situation where an insufficient number of volumes are replicated in a DR scenario could result in a disaster. Alerting to the incorrect number of volumes being replicated could prevent this. The simplest way to determine the "correct" number of ...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Physical Usable capacity view in License Compliance Tab

Need the ability to display Physical Usable capacity in the Spectrum Control License Compliance Tab. Many customers that are virtualizing IBM storage behind San Volume Controller are licensed based on "Physical Usable" capacity so their licensed c...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

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