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Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Fusion HCI internal Scale Storage as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF

Enable so the internal Scale Storage in Fusion HCI can be used as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF. Using ODF on top of redundancy in Scale causes very low storage utilization without real incremental redundancy benefits. Some kind of st...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Provide a configurable session timeout for the TSSC web management interface.

Security standards are further restricting the timeout of sessions for admin interfaces. Reduces risk.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

DS8 Create Volume Sets Summary View Should Include Column to Show if Volumes are to be Mapped to a Host/Cluster or Not

In the Create Volumes view in DS8 9.3 GUI, when we create a new Volume Set and Save it, the summary table of volume sets to create includes Volume Name, Pools, LSSs, Volume Addresses, Capacity, and Provisioning, but there is no indication in that ...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

DS8 2 Improvements to Create Volumes from Host Context Menu

When a user chooses the Create Volumes option from the Host context menu, that it limit down the provided options to volume types that are actually compatible to the Host Type. Eg if the host is AS/400 then only include "Create Volumes for IBM i"....
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

IBM Storage Virtualize Plugin for vSphere features missing

The VMware plugin for Flash Systems missing the following operations which are publish in :https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248505.pdf - IBM FlashSystem and VMware Implementation and Best Practices Guide - Marking the hosts as flash I...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Add machine serial number to TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary

TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary page has many useful information, including the VE hardware serial number, but it is missing the serial numbers of other components of the TS7700 cluster. Adding the serial numbers of the other components, which are ...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

Backup & Restore of NSX network interfaces/Tags using Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for VE

Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments need to include the option ofbackup/restore of VMware NSX virtual networking devices and its Security Tags into the VMare VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infras...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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

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

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