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Dynamic Workload Re-Balancing between vSnaps in a single site

More dynamic workload distribution would be a great feature to add into SPP. For example vSnap 1 is 75% full and newly added vSnap 2 is 5% full therefore migrate some of the existing snapshots (base and incremental) to vSnap 2 for dynamic workload...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Temporarily suspend deactivation and expiration of backup data.

We have received a number of customer requests, to temporarily suspend deactivation and deletion of backups due to retention policies. Often happens during and after ransomware attacks, where the customer have a temporary need for retaining deacti...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Add Report in Spectrum Protect Plus for daily growth of each vSnap server

One of our Enterprise customer want to know via Report - daily growth of each vSnap server (he has 6 vSnap Servers)
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Have an API to communicate with Storage Insights

We want to integrate Storage Insights alerts into our monitoring tool. Should be able to communicate with Storage Insights through an API to receive alerts etc. and have them processed by our monitoring tool.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

Provide a command to set the "replace"-flag to disks in missing state, so a callhome is triggered.

Disks in state "missing/drained" are not treated as replaceable disks by design, and so they do not trigger a call home. But because many of these disks are indeed broken, it would be useful if the administrator could run a command or use a GUI bu...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

SPP within the Federal Market

Within the Federal Market, we are unable to sell Spectrum Protect Plus as it uses the CentOS as its base OS. CentOS is not able go through the DOD Security Technical Implementation Guide process (STIG) to identify vulnerabilities for the OS or the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve SPP Scheduler

Scheduler is not enough flexible. Need an enhanced-like tsm schdeduler. Case :a VM can be backuped by differents Sla's, with theirs own retention and start time. we need :- to add some exclusions (exclude a soecific hour, day, week, month , exclud...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ticket overview in Storage Insights

We would like to have the possibility to view all tickets, open ongoing tickets and closed aswell in the same window. As for now we have no overview to see all tickets but we have to manually open the "Tickets" tab under each system.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Enhancements for DS8000 REST API

We are using REST API to get configuration data out from the DS8000 storage system.We would like to have more API request types to get also security informations from DS8000.We need to know the active authentication policy with properties, informa...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Webclient for 7.1.8 and 8.1.2

please know that in the Healthcare and Hospital environment, the Web Client is very highly used, and extremely important. Your statement that the Web client is not needed because the BA client GUI is available and can be used. However, you fail to...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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