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    Allow Rescheduling of Snapshot Policy on Volume Group

    Sometimes we need to change when a snapshot policy is scheduled for a given volume group. Currently you have to unassing the old policy, and reassign it giving a new time.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    API Enhancement for GET /v1/pools

    The API queries for GET /v1/pools GET /v1/pools/{pool_id} We need to be able to see encryption status of the pool through the API query. it's very helpful if the queries were modified after the DSCLI command lsextpool -l.
    11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Include "Remove Session" command under dual control to secure LCP!!!

    To secure our LCP backup environment
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup Support in the Red Hat OpenShift environment running on POWER platform

    Customer is creating new AI workloads on OpenShift running on IBM POWER servers. Spectrum Protect Plus v10.1.7 supports Linux x86_64, but not Linux on POWER.OpenShift is designed to enable portability to multiple platforms, but Spectrum Protect Pl...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

    Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Allow "restriced" Account for Hypervisor Inventory

    Today it is required a) to create an account for the communication between the Spectrum Protect Plus appliance and the VMware vCenterb) assign permissions for that account within the vCenter "top down" from the vCenter level including inheritance ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    AFM: Primary AFM Gateway is selected from one of gateway nodes in afm target map definitions

    For AFM-RO use case, currently afmGateway accepts all or a single primary gateway. Please provide another option where the afmGateway is chosen amongst the nodes defined in the afm target map definition
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    No direct option for secondary copy to cloud and no immutable copy feature

    Spectrum Protect Integrating with the cloud for a secondary copy streamlines backups, eliminating the need for an another on-premises backup server. This approach offers cost efficiency, scalability, remote accessibility, redundancy, automated man...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add SP Server logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX

    Currently, logging to SYSLOG is only available on Linux. To properly integrate SP into SIEM/QRadar, it is essential to have logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX, too.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    ESXi 8.0.3 security scanning support form VMs with snapshots

    Quote from the documentation: Sentinel server with version 8.10 or higher can scan virtual machines on ESXi version 8.0.3. However, if those VMs have VMware snapshots, the host will not scan them. Sentinel server with version 8.9 or earlier can al...
    11 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

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