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Ability to export backup data from directory container Storage pool and mover node data from a Directory Container stgpool

SYSTEM: Product IBM Spectrum Protect ACTOR: User requires additional option of the export/import node to include backup and archive data stored on directory container object storage pool, both on on and off premise.Function to back up a directory ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Ability to Specify protocol -- rdma/tcp -- along with the subnet/cluster reachability

Consider the following use-case: There are two clusters each with multiple nodes. The intra-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes within the cluster) happens via TCP and inter-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes between clusters) happens v...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP File restore selection and Progress

SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP: NAT connection trough dedicated vLAN

SPP server has configured NAT with additional 3 network IP's. The same vLAN's are configured in the vSNAP server + proxy combo (IBM appliance).During Backup/Restore operation SPP communicate with client with correct IP (different than managment). ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

using remote clients as helper nodes for policy scans and processing migration

Usually, IBM recommends to pool all ESS Storage Servers in a so called storage cluster and then connect one or multiple remote client / or so called / compute clusters to the ESS. In fact, thats meanwhile a common best practice cluster topology. O...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

DRP Pool Metrics per vDisk -> Sizes and Savings

The vDisk display in DRP pools must match those of the legacy pools. Especially the size display and the savings have to be transparent. New functions like deduplication and compaction schould get their own metric as well.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Virtualize/SVC support for Dell EMC VPLEX backend

Customer plans to use IBM SVC as a hub for storages, provided by other vendors, including competitors. Quite a few of the storages are hidden behind VPLEX virtualization and thus can not be virtualized by SVC/Storwize family. It limits the mobilit...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SPP reporting for Daily, Monthly backup status

SPP reporting has currently some good reports but there is no report with clear Backup completion report.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add 'setcontactinfo' to DSCLI on DS8900 series

Implement a command to set and update call home contact information on DS8900 series DSCLI. Update Name, Email, Phone, Address, etc. Similar to chsacfg command on HMCs
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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