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Be able to set default throttle or multiple throttle schedules (business hours or weekends, for example)

This request is to have the ability of creating different throttle schedules, or setting a default throttle.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Three site Async Replication - Spectrum Virtualize

The customer requirement consists of an application that needs to be in a 3-way async replication configuration between their 3 data centers which are outside of Sync distances.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

AWS EC2 Snapshot replication and copy

Allow an AWS EC2 snapshot to be ingested by SPP's repository and the ability of creating other copies, using replication and copy/offload features.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Progress bar for Replication & Archive

Currently ISPP only shows a working progress bar for Backups. For Jobs like Replication and Cloud Offload the bar stays at 0% until the end and then jumps to 100%.This is a problem when monitoring tasks and trying to get a rough estimate how long ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Safeguarded Copy offload to Cloud via TCT

We are looking to have the ability to offload Safeguarded Copies (LCP) to the cloud via TCT (preferably S3 cloud) and maintain the capability to create a recovery copy from any of the offloaded Safeguarded Copies. Today due to physical capacity li...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Data collector incorporate in DS8K

Similar to CSM, Storage Insight Data collector can be built in the DS8K HMC by default for customer. This will allow the customer to easily consume the Storage Insight Service. This will increase Storage Insight usage and that will benefit the fut...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Rolling upgrades of space management client.

When upgrading the space management client, event if there are multiple HSM nodes, it is required to disable HSM globally while space management and backup-archive clients and API are removed and reinstalled on all nodes. For clusters with multipl...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Allow ISF SW version licensing based on TB instead of VPCs for small setups

We are facing problems on the pricing of ISF based on VPCs for small setups as they only need a range of 10-20TB . When doing the VPC pricing is really hard to sell the product at this stage as customer are not needing a high capacity
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

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