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Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Out of space alert/warning from healthchecker should repeat

Storage Insights Healthchecker for FlashSystems monitors both effective and physical capacity utilization and generates a warning alert if the capacity usage exceeds 80%. However this warning is then not generated again until the capacity utilizat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SRA snapshots require meaningful name

snapshots created during failover/failback are being created without any decent naming convention (vdisk0 vdisk1 etc.. as vdisk names ; fcmap0 fcmap1 etc.. as fcmap names ; fcconsistgrp0 fcconsistgrp1 etc.. as consistency group names) > these s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect client using port 9081, same as BigFix

The new tsm client 8.1.7+ is using default port 9081 for file level restore operations via web.The problem is that is the same port as tsm4ve and the same port as bigfix. IBM should not release different products using the same default port. One o...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Need complete version information in GUI question mark info

When using the GUI the granularity of the version info only displays 2.0.4, it does not include the build version or forth element of version number (2.0.4.1). Right now only administrators can identify the full version installed via the command p...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

FS9200 - Auto expand flash copy bit map space when allocating hyperswap volumes

The hyperswap volumes require flash copy bitmap space. This space is not autoexpanding and has to e manually set. Customer has to extend flashcopy bitmap space everytime manually to accommodate new allocations using instructions in the link below....
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable REST API in Opscenter via Commandline not manually via Browser

Enabling REST API is only possible using a checkbox using a supported webbrowser. It might be helpful for automation issues to do this without manual intervention.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Query Table Columns selection not sorted

When working in Query Builder we found that the "Table Columns" selection list was sorted in order it was added to Spectrum Discover, not alphabetically sorted, this makes finding the desire column to select.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

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