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Host across ownership group

Customer replaced A9000 with FS9500 and runs into this issue: on SpVirt, the host object is part of the ownership group (tenant domain) (<> A9 did not consider hosts as part of the 'tenancy domain'). There is a manual workaround (chghostcl c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

add NetApp SnapVault Scheduling and File Indexing to SPP

In Spectrum Protect Plus it should be possible to trigger NetApp SnapVault snapshots to NetApp Secondary Storage Systems on Prem or on Cloud and to list existing snapshots and index the files they contain. Possible restores should also be triggere...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI.

1. CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI Of Flash Copy Command Hi, We would like to have a report generated with CSMCLI Command who will give the completion of the FlashCopy Ce can see dynamically the completion with GUI.But if we want to follo...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect support for gluster filesystems

Spectrum Protect client should support the gluster filesystem.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Additional memory settings for cloning target

In many cases the target of a DB Cloning operation has less system resources than the cloning source. For those cases there is already the possibility to limit the database memory of the target in the FlashCopy Manager profile.But in some cases, t...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Improve documentation

The new IBM Product IBM Spectrum Protect Online Services (SPPOS) have support to backup M365 to a IBM Spectrum Protect S3 Objcet Agent Server. But the problem is that since a few weeks back SPPOS doesn't support self-signed certificate. By defaul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Future consideration

To hold expiration for particular version of VM snapshot backup copy on Backup server

Currently we are facing issue to retain particular date's backup copy of the VM snapshot. For example: There is an request from customer to perform a file-level restore from VM snapshot from oldest copy. If its Unix VM, OS team takes sometime to c...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced

When using quotas on Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced. Native Scale commands can report on how much grace is left. SI (and presumably SC) doesn't report this.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Enable REST via commandline

REST API has to be enabled using Open Webbrowser, Login, and Check the "Enable REST" Checkbox.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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