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Document required "sudo" permissions

The requirement for a single file recovery within Spectrum Protect Plus is to implement a sudo-configuration on each protected VM to assign:sppagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add roll-up snapshot/SGC Schedule

Allow the user to have an aggressive snapshot interval that rolls up to a less aggressive, longer retention snaps.
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Easier Flashsystem configuration Export/Import

A customer requirement is that if a situation arises where a failed storage device is to be replaced, the original storage controller configuration can be easily and immediately imported as a new storage controller configuration. We would like to...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
10 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

CNSA / Rest API - Restrict GUI User access to a single Filesystem

Today, each CNSA Instance requires two GUI Users with the Access Roles of ContainerOperator and CsiAdmin. These GUI Roles have permissions to connect and manage all existing Filesystems on the Remote Scale Cluster. Fthat means: an Openshift Admin ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - Retention Lock for retention sets

System: Spectrum Protect Server - all platformsActor: User needing new function Description: Request to develop a new feature which can lock a retention set from being deleted prior to its set expiry day. The feature can be termed as "Retention Lo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Increase history from 2 weeks to a longer (per choice) period of time.

2 weeks are to short for history for clients and servers where customers often asks for changes that happened maybe 1-2 months ago. Espicially when it comes to "what happened / why did my storage grow last month" but also in regards of SP server s...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Differential alerts

Customer would like to receive not only static alerts (eg. data rate > 1 MB/sec) but also differential alerts (eg. data rate increased by more than 20% over the last week). They would like in particular to receive such alerts at consolidated le...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

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