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SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necess...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP integration with vmware VIX

VMware VIX api integration provides a very useful tool to avoid VMware virtual machines can backup/restore indivual files from Hypervisor instead of accessing directly to the VM. VM accesses is not necessary. In many customers, VM networks are not...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Deliver Spectrum Connect as container image (Docker)

Customers are very considered by the demand for root access to install Spectrum Connect. At some customers its impossible to get around this demand.One way around it would be to deliver a Dicker image of the product.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Delete Backups in Vsnap repository

SPP 10.1.1 allows expiration of specific recovery points... But that's expiring all the VMs included in that recovery point within the SLA. It still do not have the ability to expire individual VMs within a policy...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Need an option to "backup" or "export" custom SQL-reports in "Spectrum Protect Operations Centre"

Some customers have many custom sql reports in their OC, so we need an convenient option to export or backup those sql-reports either in one single file (like .xml) or export single reports to single files (and consequently are able to import them...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Support COHESITY SmartFiles S3 Object Lock for IBM Storage Protect Container Storage Pools

It is a major Storage Protect customer request. This customer has a project to integrate COHESITY SmartFiles and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Storage Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Multi-namespace Crash Consistency / Consistency Groups

Today, Consistency Groups as supported with Scale/GDP ensure that all Pods in a single namespace can be snapshotted in a crash-consistent way. A financial services customer is asking for consistent snapshots spanning PV/PVCs in separate namespaces.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Enable SPP Oracle log backup logging

While roll forwarding a oracle DB when restoring, the restore suddenly stopped, because a log file was not provided. Unfortunately, in the logs for the log backup to vSnap, you cannot see which log files were backed up and if everything was succes...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Introduce new Replication Only SLA

System: Spectrum Protect PlusActor: User needing new feature Spectrum Protect Plus is a Backup and Data reuse product that allows for easy protection of virtual workloads and replication to alternate locations. However, although replication is sup...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to create empty structures in S3 Object Client

We would like to be able to create empty object structures in S3 buckets i.e.:aws s3api put-object --bucket test --key dir/myfolder I was told by support team, that this is currently a limitation to the MinIO used for the object agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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