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Check Backed up OpenShift Resources through Fusion UI

Only way to verify backed up resources within a namespace is using scripts. Doing this through Fusion UI is going to be a lot better. Specially in larger OCP deployments.
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add non root access to ESS nodes with AD authentication

This RFE is to request the ability for adding non-root user ids to the ESS systems with authentication such as external AD. The current options are: 1) sudo wrappers using the following procedure on page 80 : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgec...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Missing time stamp

It seems obvious to us that it would be useful to know when the scanning of a Qtree has ended. The only existing keys to date are NameStatusMessageScan_recordsIndexed_recordsPhaseTotal_phases The endpoint we are looking at is sd connmgr/v1/scan/QT...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission because in the current version we have to implement multiple settings.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM To have options in GUI to export and import Web Certificates

Requesting there to be functionality within the CSM application in order to export and import the web certificates used by the CSM web GUI. I had raised the mentioned PMR to inquire about the process as it was not included in the documentation I c...
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Restore Functionality - Enable the recovery of VMs as an orchestrated group

Enable the recovery of VMs as a group i.e. Consistency Group or restore group for orchestration What is meant here is the ability to recover VMs in a ordered or orchestrated fashion i.e. I have 3 servers to recover an AD server, a SQL server and a...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide TSM Client for Ubuntu s390x zLinux

Please provide a TSM Client (Spectrum Protect Client) installer for Ubuntu on s390x
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

File Audit Logging x Object/S3

With Scale we have FAL for NFS and CIFS, for Object/S3 we have the capability to have the mapping for the SWIFT API user only and not with the specific user or application that is submitting the request (put, get, etc). Our client is asking thew c...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Full VM restore with HD 1 only

The question is, how to restore the VM without having All Hard Disks, beside "Hard Disk 1" being created and allocated in the datastore. We do backup of "Hard disk 1" only for a VM, see attached "SPFILOPS17 backup detail.jpg" When we restore the V...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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