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Capacity/trending charting and/or min|max|avg for a given time series for a given Application Group

Ability to create utilization charts/trends that span over a selected time series for applications or groups. We have the ability to see snapshot data today, but no easy way to see the data over time. I would like to be able to see a similar graph...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Externalise Achive to tape backup

Hello, I dont know why you have created an archive to tape solution without any possibility to externalise the tapes. We really need this option fefore we are going to another solution. Regards, Nabil AMER
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future 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
10 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.
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management needs to support AIX LVM volume Mirroring for HA (2 separate storage devices for each mirror)

Any user of AIX with HA/LVM Mirrors will benefit. Not every AIX system can be brought up to current code and FlashCopy Manager no longer supports aix 6. I have an SAP/Oracle System with HA across 2 sites/SVC clusters. An LVM mirror is in each site...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Modify 'Protected and Unprotected VMs' report to allow display of only unprotected VM

The current report shows both protected and unprotected VMs in report and allow to hide Unprotected VM. However there is no report which can display only unprotected VM. Business Justification: We have thousands of VMs part of protection and their...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add SNMP monitoring capabilities to CDM

The IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management appliance does provide SMTP to send alerts when an SLA or job fails.For integration in monitoring/event management tools, the ability to select SNMP trap sending is required.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backing up and Restoring VMs that have independant disks allocated to them

Short notes:TSM for VE will backup and restore and VM with zero dependent disks. The data will not be on the disks, but the VM will backup and restore with the disks in place. SPP simply fails the job if there are no dependent disks. TSM for VE wi...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improving offload hardware requirement efficiency

Hi, Currently, when an SPP customer would like to have a copy on tapes, he has 2 alternatives:1. copy mode - to have additional storage space in the ISP server (as directory container) to allow incremental copies. that requires twice the capacity ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Decomission of file system for agent base

we are able to perform the completed server using decomission command decom node nodename can we have update feature of this like decom filespace nodename fsid nametype=fsid like this.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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