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Storage Fusion SDS edition backup administrator account segregation

Our customer Euro Information is a very large banking company. They have very strict administrative accounts policies and strong RBAC management in place. In the recent past, they rejected any software or hardware product that is not compliant wit...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Restrict access management based on OS type or agent type like VM Snapshot backup/SQL DB/ Oracle DB/ View etc

We can restrict to our platform team user based on their platform CI's/ Objects/Servers/DB etc. We can more effectively manage the RABAC solution for more granular level with additional option for user access management. With this user able to man...
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

Include rpm package audispd-plugins into Storage Scale System bundle to improve audit logging capabilities.

In an regulated environment it is required to configure several audit rules at OS level, to be compliant. To forward the resulting audit events to syslog, it is required to install the rpm package audisp-plugins, which is not part of the current I...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Support for KVM

We see more and more activity where people are leaving VMware for something that are better and cheaper. So we see more offend companies that want to replace VMware with KVM/oVirt so they can combine it with Openstack or similar automated hypervisor.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Show zHyperlink performance details in DS8K GUI

Would be helpful in monitoring DS8K performance or in case of incident handling.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Automate scan and fix of "unavailable" containers for Spectrum Protect servers

Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot ----------------------...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

Improved LDAP support for Security Administrator users in DS8000

If you want to use the Export/Import LDAP Remote Authentication configuration option, and you have at least one Security Administrator (SA) user defined, when you Import the existing configuration in a new DS8000, the SA user is not imported becau...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

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