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Application archive logs included in copy operations

SPP can protect both databases and its archive logs. Those backups are stored on a vSnap, so the customer can restore both of them if they need. If the customer wants to run a copy operation of those backups to a Cloud Object Storage, for example,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Host outages during SVC Codeupgrade: Missing Warning for misconfiguration and missing SVC check – command

All backend-paths of each mdisk needs to have the same Host-LUN-ID (SCSI-ID). In case of different IDs on different paths of the same mdisk, SVC does accept this without a warning. But during a SVC Code-Upgrade, this leads to a offline-SVC-pool-si...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support for nested LDAP groups and a test LDAP function

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups and enable a test function for LDAP setup
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester

Restore functionality – Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

pNFS Support

Support pNFS (specifically, multiple pNFS CES clusters for any given number of filesystems). There appears to be support for pNFS within the GPFS Ganesha FSAL but at present it's not documented, certainly not supported, and doesn't seem to work.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect should not backup vSPhere vCLS VMs

The vCLS VMs should be fully ignored by Spectrum Protect for vSphere. IBM support could not help with the problem, but recommended me to submit an RFE for this.See:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GU...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

New Vsphere TAG at VM level to specify scheduling priority

A new PRIORITY tag at vm level could be used to force the tdp4ve backup schedule to backup the vms in a desired sequence ( ex priority option from 0 to 100 ) default 100 , 0 highest priority 100 lowest priority. Customer are often requesting to ba...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - bring greater visibility on data and metadata if both do not match

TS003754429It was recommended for a RFE to be opened to give greater visibility into what is on the vSNAPs matches what is in the SPP database/catalog.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GUI improvement to policies

1. Often we see that if the policy gets slightly complicated, the ILM editor bails out, and only gives us the possibility of editing the policy file directly. The policy editor should be much more robust, so that it can be used for more than the s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Control integration into VMware

Hi Team We are looking for a permanent solution to an issue that we are having at a customer below. Our customer is looking for deep integration between Spectrum Control Advanced Edition/VSC and VMware. Currently, Spectrum Control probes VMware on...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

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