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Ability to modify retention of individual VMs along with their historical data

Customer states that they are unable to extend/change the retention period for a VM along with the historical backup data if requested by groups within their environment without changing the setting for the entire SLA. This is not viable as it res...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

spectrum Protect Plus reports is missing

Requests to add to the report's data of who performed the recovery.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add DA pair column to DS8000 drives listing

Please add a DA pair column to DS8000 drives (DDM) listings. Within a DS8000, spare drives are restricted to the device adapters they are connected to. And each device adapter pair has a number of available spares, usually 4. It is threrefore impo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add support for direct attached tape by updating the interface to adhere to more recent standards (Fibre Channel, Ethernet, iSCSI) to support standalone connection to Power10

Currently the external tape drive supports 8Gb/s Fibre Channel which is N-3. Updating to 16Gb/s or 32Gb/s or 64Gb/s as well as adding support for Ethernet and iSCSI connectivity is required. This will enable greater flexibility, resiliency and per...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

Simplified descOnly support on virtual quorum node

We should support using VM internal partition for descOnly NSD. Should not require the complexity of raw device mapping for this simple functionality, that also doesn't have any risk of data loss. I asked on the internal General Parallel File Syst...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Restore SQL to the same SQL Server with another name

Customer wants to restore a DB to the same SQL system with a new name. This is only possible when defining a different data path. The restore works fine but the name of the data- and logfile will be the same as the original files. example: We try ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Increase vmmaxvirtualdisks limit

Increase the maximum supported disk size (Vmmaxvirtualdisks option) to current available limit. In version 8.1.10 the maximum is 8TB but the maximum vmdk size in cSphere 6.7 is 64TB.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

SPP - Support for Dataguard

We would like to use SPP to backup our Oracle Databases. Most of the areas at the city will be moving to Dataguard later this year. If this is not supported then we cannot use SPP for this.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP default policy creation after software upgrade

At initial install some SLA policies are created by default. I have no containers and Amazon EC2 instances to protect, so I don't need the default policies "Container" and "EC2" and have deleted both policies. But they are recreated after every sy...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

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