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Identify individual VM backup sessions during a SLA backup

Once a SLA is running, it would be nice to see in a list which VM's completed the backup successfully, which failed, which are running and which will run, to help monitor and take appropriate actions if needed.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Option to select files to restore from a directory tree view

SPP to allow file-level restore not just by searching for files or folder, but also by expanding a directory tree to input multiple selections
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow multiple REST sessions per user

We wrote some checks for an external event management system that query several parameters and events from the storage arrays through REST API. As we have multiple checks and a clustered event management infrastructure we sometimes have 2 or more ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Make Dynamic Volume Expansion without losing our previous SGC backups

We will implement SafeGuardedCopy on our new DS8980F. We want to be able to make Dynamic Volume Expansion without losing our previous SGC backups. Can this be available in a near future ? We are aware of the following : (Extract from IBM Copy Ser...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Migration plans for cloud offload data in SPP

Customers looking to make use of cloud offload generally have archival of snapshots in mind. This particular customer is currently using CloudA today may want move to CloudB sometime in the future. Currently when a cloud destination is changed in ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Decommission VM confirmation with filespace name

When decommission is run for example:DECOMMISSION VM VMNAME 999 NAMETYPE=FSID No confirmation of what filespace/vmname is shown. The confirmation message:ANR3392W DECOMMISSION VM: This command will decommission the specified virtual machine. The a...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Allow SLA associations to survive the move of associated guests from one hypervisor to another

possibility to migrate VM's between different vCenter systems. In this case today SPP track this as a new VM, but it is not a new VM it's the same as before.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Postspone client issued delete backup commands from API and/or BA clients

Whenever a client that has 'deletebackup=yes' submitts a delete data request, this request should be queued for deletion pending approval from admin or executed after a few days. Maybe a optional field on the node 'DeleteDelay (days)'
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow for more than 1 concurrent expiration processes

A further expiration process can't be started if already an expiration process is running. Customer have 4 windows cluster systems with a huge system state. Expiration for these client nodes run a couple of days.This prevents a daily expiration pr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Flashsystem : Behavior when the management IP port cable is disconnected

If the cable of the node with the management IP on the side with the management IP is disconnected, there will be no SNMP signal or syslog signal forever.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

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