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    VM File Indexing not available while Configuring VM using NVMe Disk Controller in SPP

    While Configuring virtual machine using NVMe Disk Controller from VMware side. VM Backup is successful to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. When using File Restore feature in SPP. File indexing is not available and this is happening because OS's are not ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    avoid external ssh access to spp container pods for ISP Plus kubernetes backup

    In release 10.1.6 of ISP Plus ssh access to the spp agent container pods is needed from outside the k8s cluster (ISPP Server needs this access).There are security concerns at a customer site due to this requirement.SPP server to spp agent pod comm...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)

    Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Directory method Installation and Upgrade support of scale deployment through open source ansible scale roles.

    Directory method Installation and Upgrade support of scale deployment through open source ansible scale roles.
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    SPP: Implement different "log options" for serviceability

    SPP currently only offers one "log download" option, which always includes the vSnaps & VADP logs and a lot of SPP GUI logs.In larger envirnments with a few vSnaps & VADPs, we've seen those support packages grow to 6GB and take longer than...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins

    Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins You should be able to add something like the below as an example. Last Backup Completed Successfully - Yes/NoLast Backup Completed At - 01/01...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Background Processes not visible in SVC-GUI (Code Level 8.7.0.1)

    Hello Team. A few weeks ago we upgraded one of our SVC's from code level 8.6.0.3 to 8.7.0.1. Since we are on 8.7.0.1 (also happened with code level 8.6.0.3) we are wondering why no background processes (such like vdisk mirroring, volume formatting...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Needs more information

    Allow more data points in SI Performace graphs & tables

    Max 272 data points in SI for a selected performance metric (both on graph and in a table) is very often insufficient, and should be increased to 744 or more. This would allow Hourly data resolution display/table for a 1 month period (31*24). Or 5...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    An option to edit the autorefresh timer of the FlashSystem GUI

    The new FlashSystem GUI has a autorefresh function that is not editable.So if you are looking at the Volumes screen for example after a few minutes the screen refreshes and you are back at the top even though you selected a volume in the middle of...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

    Fully declarative cephadm experience

    Clients moving to cephadm yaml-based declarative Ceph management expect that they can fully manage day-1 and day-2 operations using that method so that they can leverage the GitOps pattern for operations. Areas to be improved: Every parameter that...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Under review

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