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Defender Data Protect/Replica

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Defender Data Protect support for OpenStack

Defender Data Protect currently lacks support for backup and restore of OpenStack environments that are commonly in use with many MSPs and large clients and Defender Data Protect needs to provide native backup/restore capabilities for this environ...
8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Implementing purging algorithms

Protection > Recoveries view will not be purged, only some detail information for recovery tasks older than a month.
about 1 month ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Adding multipath support for FC backup

One of our customers has Cohesity cluster (12 nodes - Dell PowerEdge 760XL). Each server has 1 HBA (32Gb) with 2 ports and it`s connected to 2 Cisco switches (according to Cohesity recommendations). The problem is all my 12 nodes working through 1...
9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Planned for future release

Enable Web Proxy for DMS agent communication to IBM Cloud

Build in a option to configure the use of a web proxy to enable the DMS agent for Storage Protect to communicate with the IBM Cloud for Storage Protect servers that do not/cannot have direct access to the internet and require a web proxy for inter...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Needs more information

Add GKLM Protection and Overview to Defender

The GKLM Installation is critical for some Defender Installations because it provides the keys to encrypt tape and disk storage used in Defender. It should be seen in Defender as Ressource and Data Protect should be able to protect the instance.
7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Data Protect as part of IBM Storage Defender and improvement for cluster-failover

Assume there are two Data Protect Clusters in metro-distance (<30km). Both clusters are loosely coupled only. Just backup data itself are mirrored asynchronously, but no meta-data. What are the issues with that? As a consequence, in case of a f...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Please add ability to select individual VMDKs for inclusion, excluding all unselected VMDKs

When configuring a Protection Group with a standardized configuration of the OS partition being on HDISK1, it is easier to select that one VMDK for inclusion rather than have to exclude all other VMDKs. Over time, VM configurations may change and ...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Add support for Data Protect to Archive to Google "Archive" Tier

Lowers cost for long-term retention of data.
3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Add ability in Data Management Service to perform most common Storage Protect actions

Monitoring of Storage Protect is very basic in the current release. The product shows how many alerts on the Storage Protect server but not what they are. Operations Center is still 100% necessary for Storage Protect management. Would like to allo...
almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration