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Operation center does not support working with server groups

Because of the size of our environment (30 servers) we use servergroups for several things like for instance routing a command to several servers at once. The use, creation and modification of server groups is currently not supported in operation ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Catalog file discovery results failed in VM Backup

SPP can run catalog file metadata on backup VM for different vLans networks.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore of backed up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same may fail

Based on APAR IT34036, backing up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same as the original virtual machine name can result in data to become unrecoverable because the state of the original vm and the replica may differ (...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus backup support for VMWare Tanzu TKG container environment

An important italian customer with a large SP and SPP installation has already implemented OpenShift backup with SPP. He has also container environments based on VMWare Tanzu TKG and he needs to protect such environment. My request is about the su...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Test Restore Periodically

Restore customer data Periodically without needing of system outage or stand by system.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Need to protect AWS RDS databases

whilst SP/SPP support native SQL databases, they do not support AWS RDS SQL. As users start to move more workloads to AWS, they need to continue protecting the data. Failure to provide this functionality within SP/SPP will make users look elsewher...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Subnet specification for RDMA based clusters

When connecting two Scale Clusters via RDMA, the "subnets" parameter is limiting. We at Vcinity specialize in building equipment that is used for connecting systems over the wan using the RDMA protocol. Whether it is InfiniBand or ROCE, we provide...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to Clone/Copy SLA Policy

Add the ability to clone SLAs i.e. keep the retention/schedule/replication/offload settings and just give the option to set a new name
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Catalog backup SLA report

Hello, We are a MSP which has ESA agreement with IBM. We provide IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a service to our customers and guarantee %100 restore for the backups they take.Of course, we only offer this to our customers who receive Managed Servic...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

The Menu ?DS8000 Paths? should include the Location column

If you add a storage connection at the “Storage System” menu you are able to give the new storage system a “description” at the Location column. This is very helpful to distinguish the storage systems. It would be very helpful to display this colu...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration