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    include log backups in additional copies

    In version 10.1.8 transaction log backups (e.g. for MSSQL or MS Exchange) can be replicated between vSnap servers to produce redundant copies.In the "additional copies" feature only the incremental backups of the DBs/applications are copied to the...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Ship Fusion HCI with OCP and Fusion container images

    When installing into an air-gap environment it is expected to mirror a specific OpenShift release and the Fusion images, then import them into the client network and push into the client provided private registry. This process is not tested proper...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 GRID maximum logical tape volume increase

    Please increase the maximum logical tape volume from current 4 million to 6 million as we our tape growth will soon exhaust the 4 million. Only if the limit has been increased, We will continue to be able to support the users to create more tape d...
    8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    More functionality for ESS/SCALE

    To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation:And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots Ov...
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Add support for NFS v4 on vSnap Servers to close Vulnerabilities issues caused by NFS v3

    Customer is having SPP 10.1.7 and Security team runs multiple Vulnerability Scan multiple times a year and they have identified vulnerability on vSnap servers related to NFS version. Current NFS version of the vSnap file system is V3. Can we inclu...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add Azure native VM snapshots support to SPP

    As of March 2021 SPP on Azure is capable to backup some DBs on Azure, but not VMson Azure.Add support for VMs will give SPP on Azure similar functionality comparing to SPP on premise
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Use Redirect-on-Write for DRP Fully Allocated volumes

    For FlashCopy (FC) to use Redirect-on-Write (RoW) instead of Copy-on-Write (CoW) in a Data Reduction Pool (DRP), current implementation requires both the source and the target volumes to be compressed + deduplicated, as the dedup reference countin...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

    Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Allow user access to remote copy relationships to be restricted by ownership groups

    There is the concept of ownership groups in the Spectrum Virtualize code which allows the system administrator to restrict access to users to only those objects that are defined within that ownership group. There is a list of objects to which acce...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

    As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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