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Send actlog to a remote syslog, a central loghost

There is a possibility to program userexit/fileexit to use syslog. But, the nativ support of remote syslog is needed as a standard solution. Send all entries that goes to actlog to remote syslog as a single line.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Backup SLA hung

More generic job timeout option if for any reason a database/VM backup would hold the entire job
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Prevent media with read/write errors to be reused

When a tape has a write error, it should not be reused when it has returned to scratch pool. We need some method to track media statistics across the life time of a tape, from all the SP host that has used the tape. Each SP server should send tape...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Include resource request and limits in Fusion deployment

All Fusion critical pods should have a resource request and limit assigned at deployment time and that could be reconfigured after deployment to match new requirements. A profile concept would be created to change/set the request and limit of thes...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Increased number of concurrent SSH connections and allow us to manage open ssh connections

Allow an increased number of available ssh sessions into an SVC and allow us to terminate or timeout hung or idle connections.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Integrate 'Relabel Scratch' command with Fujitsu Eternus vJuke virtual libraries

Fujitsu Eternus VTLs are well known in several customer's ISP environments. Main difference to other VTLs is the ability to stack logical volumes on physical tapes in the backend.Data written to the VTL is stored in a tape volume cache (TVC) on vi...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Need to add the total number of nodes and enclosures column to the array tabular view

Today its a common ask in a large environment how many total enclosures or nodes are in a cluster and the only option is to drill into each cluster. Under internal resources we actually have total nodes and enclosures displayed. But this can take ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Protection of namespaces under AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services

We have customer in Brazil which would like to protect just the namespaces which they have on AKS, storing this backup on Azure Object Storage. Currently, SPP does not support AKS.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

AFM for Object Storage Support

We have a large set of science data that we save on our IBM Spectrum Scale system and to be able to reduce the amount of spinning fast disk are we using IBM Spectrum Archive to extend our storage to tape. But now does our data science people ask u...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Adding a vSnap to 2 SPP appliances

The current Spectrum Protect Plus topology allows only one management (Spectrum Protect Plus VM) appliance to connect vSnaps.We should be able to add a vSnap to 2 different Spectrum Protect Plus appliances.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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