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Spectrum Scale Toolkit support for separated admin and daemon network

Due to security, some clients have different IPs for daemon and for admin network, in a Spectrum Scale Cluster, and current version of Toolkit does not support different networks.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP does not report "Missed" backups

SPP does not report "Missed" backups.If a backup is attempted and fails, this is reported in the job logs and can be reported on in the generate reports.However, if a job does not run on schedule (e.g. SPP is down, job has been paused for maintena...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

MS-SQL Support for Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1 should support MS-SQL 2012.Customer has a large MS-SQL 2012 installation base running on VMware. Both products do not support a official supported version of MS...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backup NAS Incremental

We have a large backup NAS volume for daily backup.And this volumetry of data stored and transferred daily are enormous.Backups are Differential, we need a way to perform an incremental backup.We also need a solution to backup and restore at the s...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 4 Not under consideration

Support for Overlay-FS for disk that are provisioned per CNSA/Storage Scale

We want to use Storage Scale with the CNSA-Implementation also with the requirement to use this for the Image-Building Process like BUILDKIT. But this doesnt work today becouse of missing Overlay-FS Support. The benefit will be to use more then on...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for VMware vCloud Director

When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

The customer request Storage Insights to have a Safe Guarded Copy capacity planning tool similar to StorM

The customer would like to use Safe Guarded Copy but wants to understand the capacity requirements using Storage Insights
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Run enduser file level restore with restricted privileges

Request to be able to run the end-user file level restore UI with restricted priviledges. Currently, per documentation a domain-admin UID is required to run the UI. It would be highly advisable to run the UI with the minimum privileges required fo...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add VM Backup Success Rate to GUI

The current "Success Rate" percentage shown in the GUI is misleading.It shows the success rate of jobs. Jobs include backup, restore, replication, inventory and maintenance jobs.If 1 job (with 5 VMs) fails and 1 job (with 500 VMs) succeeds, the su...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) support for RSA SecurID

Many large, heavily regulated enterprises require multifactor authentication (MFA) on mission critical technology assets. One of the most popular on-prem MFA solutions is RSA SercurID. RSA is supported on the IBM DS8k product, it should also be su...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration