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TS7700 improve cloude connection on dedicated NIC

Currently to implement Cloud connection from FS7700 to any cloud provider the same NIC used for grid replication is used. To improve performances it is helpful to have a dedicated connectivity with additional NIC within VED
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Include SW that looks to see if a health check has been done within 24-48 hours before allowing a Storage Scale SW upgrade

Ensures that a Storage Scale/ESS SW upgrade will not fail due to potentially failed boot drives or other drives/components having failed since the last health check, if the health check had been performed many days or weeks previously to the SW up...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Request for DS8K GUI to show logically occupied in comparison to physical occupied capacity in dashboard

Enhancement request for DS8K GUI to especially show in particular the logically occupied capacity also at first glance, and in comparison to the physically used. The Dashboard should already outline whether and how much is overprovisioned.The Dash...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

Add HMC's IP address when creating certificate signing request on DS8K GUI

Currently the certificate signing request created via the DS8K's GUI only allow to have the HMC's DNS in it. If we could add the HMC's IP then both the connection via the DNS and the IP would be secure after the certificate is imported.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

IBM SPP: Allow VADP/VSNAP deployment with SSH keys instead of username/password

Hello, VADP and VSNAP Deployment require that you enter a OS username and password for ssh communication. Username and password authentication is not very secure therefore any sane/larger customer will only allow ssh-keys for authentication. Pleas...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should be UNCHECKED by default.

The Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should remain unchecked as a default setting for normal use.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Please upgrade the TS7700 rsyslog protocol to use TCP with TLS

The current TS7700 rsyslog communications protocol is TCP in the clear. By adding TLS encryption to TCP, the communications will be more secure.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Archive - Undelete functionality

Hi,Our client would like to have a feature on Spectrum Archive that will do the following :1.)Allow the undelete (recreate of stub file) of deleted file(s).2.)List all files on tape.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect - Copy Retention Sets to Azure Archive Layer

Customer is looking to use the Copy Retention Sets to Cloud as introduced in 8.1.13. They have an existing storage agreement with Azure and so will be using this. Noted that the release includes support for Archive Storage in both AWS and IBM Clou...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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