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Disable ransomware alert for specific nodes

Ransomware detection is always on, and cannot be disabled. Every login has a pink banner because 5 nodes are never near their long-term average for size and dedupe ratio.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

SCDM - Re-use SSH sessions for IBM SVC Storage

Spectrum Copy Data Management creates new SSH sessions when running SVC CLI commands. Each CLI commands requires opening an SSH session and once the CLI command completes, closing the SSH session. Instead of opening a new SSH session for every CLI...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add Year to the date/time stamp in the reports.

Requirement to have the year in the time stamp, to allow for auditing trail of when the report was generated. Currently only the month and the day is provided in the report.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

server support on windows server 2019

Windows server 2019 is widely used and users/customers expecting support for spectrum protect server and operation center on this platform
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Capacity-less child pools to use for QoS

Allows the use of QoS settings for pools of volumes to be different than other pools of volumes. This could be used for prod vs non-prod, or broken up by different business units for a customer.
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

IBM Storage Fusion support for mutiple (1, 2 or 3) replica deployment model and lower infrastrucutre cost

Many modern OpenShift workloads are doing application level HA with deployment across AZ with transaction replication. The most prominant of these from the IBM SW portfolio are CP4I and CP4BA. For these workloads, their deployment with Fusion Data...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

Increase number of SVC Partnerships

Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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