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RFE: Chargeback reporting in SPP

Request from State of Arkansas for chargeback reporting based on the amount of data backed up in SPP per VM. (Not the amount of data stored on the vSnap server, after dedup compression - only amount of data backed up during backup job.)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Add button "Test LDAP connection ..."

In the Spectrum Discover web interface in home screen -> Access management -> Authentication domains -> Add domain connection a button to test a LDAP connection would be useful. Idea: When all text boxes in "Add domain connection" are fil...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Improvement in Data connections direct link UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a direct link from a connections name to the corresponding scan history would be very useful. At the moment it is very cumbersome to find: 1. A c...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Improvement in Data Connection UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" the header line of the table is not fixed. When scrolling down in the table it's not obvious which column has which information. A fixed header l...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Implement a new status i.e Qtree mounted / scanned

As of now, in Spectrum Discover (Data Souce Management) page is not showing what Qtree has been mounted and which one is scanned also. Currently there's a green tick which does not correspond to any reliable information (either Qtree mounted or Qt...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift

We discussed a limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift with Joseph Dain in Hamburg. Due to the cgroup settings in OpenShift a pod can only have 1024 pids. Since every scan creates ~100 or more threads we reach this threshold soon causing the wh...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Improved reporting to support daily operations

Customers have requested a better way to report and manage space within a pool. The example given was:It is very difficult to work out how much space a snapshot or a series of snapshots are consuming in a pool with IBM storage, other vendors make ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

FCM for VMware: Support for multiple vCenters

Today (v.4.1.2) FCM for VMware can be connected to one vCenter only. This implies that clients have to deploy one FCM for Vmware installation for each vCenter. This RFE is to support multiple vCenter with only one FCM for VMware installation.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Protecting Wide Cluster resources using Fusion UI

If we want to protect any cluster resources of any namespace, We have to create a recipe and assign it to specific application
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

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.
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration