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[Fusion Backup] Add overwrite option to Restore UI

Currently to overwrite resources at restore time you need to create a custom recipe. Also, if you decide this time you need overwrite the backups should be done with that recipe. So you can't choose overwrite or not overwrite at restore time, you ...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore

We would like to get minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore which allows our users to have and ability to go back in time in case of any issues. Now the policies are available only for hourly, daily and weekly. On our curr...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Encryption in flight between Global Data Platform (CNSA) PODs using NIST and FIPs compliance for remote filesystem mounts

Customer is a bank and wants secure communications between all nodes within the storage cluster which is possible but also between any clusters that remote mount and between the storage cluster and the Remote cluster. Because Storage Fusion with G...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Enhancement Request - Automating audit operations to detect damaged extents, inconsistencies, and corrupted files in the background

Periodic runs of the audit containers command or using audit stgrule options are required to scan the chunks and detect any inconsistencies and damages. This is an intensive and manual operation that adds additional overhead to the Storage Protect...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

HTTP proxy support for fusion backup to S3

When doing fusion backups to S3, most of the customers are using HTTP proxy with validation to allow access to external sources. Currently this is not supported
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Group View by Location

Having a group view "by Location" would bring quite some releave and push effecientcy. With close to 200 Storage devices plus SAN Switches and 20+ Data Centers it would be beneficial for us to get directly the view of a single data center, rather ...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Ability to set Custom Retention Policies for Events and/or requirement for them to be "fixed" before removing them from the Dashboard

Per design, current Fusion versions includes the following events expiration policies: Information events lasts for 3 to 4 hoursWarning events lasts for seven daysCritical events lasts for 14 days These values are fixed and do not require the admi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add ability to extend the expiration date/time of a stand alone snapshot, possibly by adding option to chsnapshot command

We create snapshots of single volumes that are not part of a volume group and not associated with a snapshot policy. Here is an example: addsnapshot -volumes my_volume1 -ignorelegacy -retentiondays 3 Today, if we need to keep the snapshot beyond t...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

List all available recipes in UI

Customer requested to be able to list all available recipes in Fusion UI and make assignments to applications in UI instead of doing from OCP Level.
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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