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Add Spectrum Scale with SSH key in Spectrum Control

Currently Spectrum Scale can be added only with password authorization. Requet is to implement SSH key authorization. Once user password is changed in Spectrum Scale , we lose collecting data until password is changed in Spectrum Control according...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Ability to create empty structures in S3 Object Client

We would like to be able to create empty object structures in S3 buckets i.e.:aws s3api put-object --bucket test --key dir/myfolder I was told by support team, that this is currently a limitation to the MinIO used for the object agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support for OTP or MFA

Ransomware is a hot topic and everyone need to secure there Backup environment as much as possible. We need to find as many features as possible to make a ransomware as hard as possible. By using multi factor authentication is one thing that could...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

IBM Storage Fusion support for mutiple (1, 2 or 3) replica deployment model and lower infrastrucutre cost

Many modern OpenShift workloads are doing application level HA with deployment across AZ with transaction replication. The most prominant of these from the IBM SW portfolio are CP4I and CP4BA. For these workloads, their deployment with Fusion Data...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

SPP should disable vSphere storage vMotion during backup

If vSphere storage vMotion is performed during SPP VM backup there may be left orphaned VMDK files on datastores. This causes operational problems for customers
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Chargeback reporting in SPP (Pre/Post Dedup/Compression)

There is a similar RFE from a US customer but their requirements seem to differ slightly: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119247 Request from customer on chargeback reporting in SPP. This is a requirement f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Requirements and design to deal with 10 billion of indexed files

Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Protect Customer wants to build a spectrum discover environment which handles up to 12 billion indexed files we are testing Spectrum Discover with 02 Spectrum Protect servers as data sources. Only these two server r...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Jump Host / Bastian Host to replace KVM in Fusion HCI Rack

Fusion HCI has pre-requisites for a DNS server / DHCP server to support the build process for a HCI cluster. In addition to which AIR Gap Installations require a local server to provide the repository for the installation content for the cluster. ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

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