IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    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.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

    Change SPP requirements for WinRM for AllowUnencrypt due to security issues

    Currently ISPP requirements for Windows (SQL/Exchange/Windows File Indexing) say to set AllowUnencrypted to true :winrm s winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}and"Both servers must have a Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service that is...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Planned for future release

    Allowing for hybrid connections in the same Diamondback (SAS/FC)

    Allow for customer to order a Diamondback with a hybrid of SAS and fiber channel drives. Allowing a single Diamondback to support different type of workloads/connections vs requiring two Diamondbacks to achieve this.
    about 2 years ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Enable bond1 (25GbE cards) with FDF (Lenovo nodes) to be used with VLANs and VMs

    We noticed that currently the 25 GbE cards are mostly used for management/provisioning purposes. This fact got us thinking if we could use said network cards for a testing/development environment. The fundamental idea would be enabling a Linux net...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

    Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

    While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    support volume groups in ownership groups

    When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Allow dynamic creation/modification of a DRS recovery profile

    Let's imagine that the customer is having a changing environment that requires frequent update of its recovery profile, having a way to create,update,modify,delete recovery profile or its content would be helpful. The client , would then be able t...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 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...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    File Level Restore Enhancements

    Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Implementation of PMTHLVL default equal to the total of Feature Codes defined on the Cluster

    PMTHLVL is set to a default of 10’000 once a TS7770 cluster is started for the first time, no matter if all other settings were cloned from another (replaced) cluster. It is required to have the default value PMTHLVL set to the total of activated ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

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