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Being that the Distributed AG is a collection of multiple AAG's, my initial thoughts are that each AAG would be configured per the guide with a unique set of nodenames (ALWAYSONODENAME, TDP nodenames, and, if performing VSS backups, B/A Client nod...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Offer options for excluding the accumulation of some messages related to Safeguarded Copies taken off the GM Secondary in the DSGUI Events

I currently have no visibility on events that occurred more than 3 hours ago on my primary site DS8950F because of a flood of informative " Remote Relationship State Changed" caused by the CGPAUSE needed for the SGC process taking place at seconda...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Externally connect to Management switch to remote support HCI

A customer asks to have the chance to externally connect to the internal switches of Spectum Fusion HCI to remote support the appliance in case Red Hat OCP doesn’t work because two master nodes failed or an administrator blocked the Red Hat OCP ma...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Have up to 10 data connections in circle graph

The home screen of the Spectrum Discover web interface shows a circle graph with all data connections. This may be useful if you only have up to 10 data connections but it is confusing with more data connections. It may also cause problems when we...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

IBM Spetcrum Protect or SPP cross-hypervisor restore for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure)

Cross-hypervisor restore feature for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure) is a feature already supported in competitor solutions ie Commvault .
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Manager database backup to a Cloud bucket - adding custom CAs

The COS Manager database backup to a Cloud bucket feature needs some enhancements. Today you can configure the Manager database backup to an S3 bucket using either the Manager UI or the REST API with any HTTPS endpoint using a certificate issued b...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Safeguard Copy to S3 storage

Allow the ability to schedule safeguard copies off site to S3 storage either on another platform or in the cloud.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Fix ANS1715E different virtual machine UUID error message

When backing up a virtual machine for which the UUID has changed, the following error is thrown:ANS4308E Full VM backup of 'Hyper-V' Virtual Machine 'WS50115' failed with RC=4379 mode=Incremental Forever - Incremental, target node name='CLSIM261_H...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Protect virtual machines with shared virtual harddisks (shared VHDX or VHDSet)

We rely heavily on guest clustering for high availability. Virtualization delivers availability at the server level, but not at the application level. If a machine goes down unexpectedly, Hyper-V will bring it up on another Hyper-V host, but from ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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