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    Process DB snapshot volumes with DRM

    Prior to SP 8.1.25, the SP sever disaster recovery manager (DRM) would process DB snapshot backup volumes. Beginning in 8.1.25 (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT47560), DB snapshot volumes are ignored by DRM which can make them invisib...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Add a Utility node with FC cards

    Add a Utility node with fc cards, so we can deliver a full IBM Storage solution with IBM Storage Archive, without having to involve Power brand.A utility node with enogh memory and fc card would fulfil this gap in our options when building a Scale...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 3 Planned for future release

    Configure Eligible for log backup for SQL-database model to yes

    I was told that the deployment of the SQL databases is done using the model-database. While every database will be implemented in roll-forward mode also the model database is configured to roll-forward.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    List and stop long running commands

    Some Spectrum Scale commands can take a long time to run, such as mmapplypolicy, mmrestripefs, mmecheckquota. These might be run manually, or started by cron a batch system, or a callback. But sometimes, once started, there is a need to stop the c...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Add Applications to REST API

    I would like applications to be added to the REST API. That way I can get metrics for Applications I setup in Storage Insights Pro. In particular, I want to be able to create dashboards in Grafana for Applications.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    checkMK . FlashSystem Plugin update

    Some of our customers use Checkmk as their monitoring tool instead of IBM Storage Insights. To ensure compatibility and optimal performance, it would be beneficial to update the current plugin to support the latest IBM Flash System Family.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Add ability in Data Management Service to perform most common Storage Protect actions

    Monitoring of Storage Protect is very basic in the current release. The product shows how many alerts on the Storage Protect server but not what they are. Operations Center is still 100% necessary for Storage Protect management. Would like to allo...
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    Remove the requirement for disabling UAC on application aware VE backups

    As of now the use of the application aware Exchange backup with Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments requires the permanent disabling of Windows UAC. We would like to see a different solution (that does not require Windows UAC to be disabled ...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Allow longer names for flash copy related items.

    Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect when using FCM and SVC: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controlle...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Non-disruptive migrate between storage classes

    Need the ability to non-disruptively (or minimally disruptive) migrate data between storage classes. Needs to be fully automated with the user simply selecting the source PV and target storage class. Use Cases: Replace storage provider such as exi...
    11 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

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