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Create new Satellite clusters in Fusion HCI from IBM Cloud console

Enable creation of NEW IBM Cloud Satellite location in customers IBM Fusion HCI environment from the IBM Cloud Console. This could be enabled by having a agent on Fusion HCI the customer connect to IBM Cloud Satellite console. The agent is allowed...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Create Fusion HCI virtual machines from the Cloud Satellite

Today you must first access Fusion HCI to create host for IBM Cloud Satellite, then go to IBM Cloud and create location and files/scripts, then return to Fusion to load the files to attach them to IBM Cloud Satellite and finally return to IBM Clou...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Requesting RHEL9.x support for Spectrum Control

Since you support RHEL7 (which is EoL now) and RHEL8 it would only be logic to also support RHEL9.x (which was released over 2 years ago). As we have tons of servers now migrating directly from RHEL7 to RHEL9 the support for it would be tremendous...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Functionality already exists

SPP excluding disks Function for HyperV (same function as available for VMware)

The function "Excluding single virtual disks from SLA policy for a VMware job" (description see Redbook REDP-5532-01, page 175) is current only available for VMWare but missing in HyperV.Inventx needs this function in HyperV.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

GUI accounts that are restricted to specific filesystems/filesets

The ability to create GUI/Management API accounts that are restricted to one of more filesystems/filesets in the cluster.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Backups of k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS

We need to be able to protect k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS as that is going to drive our business.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fusion HCI Management Server

The Fusion HCI Rack should have a dedicated 1U Management server. This would be a low cost Linux server, single socket. The server would have the provision code as well as remote support tools. This could include remote access for IBM support, sim...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

vSphere Web Client Integration

VMware admins and operations work in vSphere Web Client. Customer need to be able to perform the backup/recovery duties from vSphere Web Client.SPP need an extention like DP for VMware provides.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Reorg of the container files

Because we must delete 800.000.000 million orphaned chucks on two TSM servers there is coming many free storage in the container files but all the filesystems are 97% filled. If we can do a reorg then the filesystems can we schrink.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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