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excluded VMs in unprotected list

The Policy Overview should have a excluded VM resource in my opinion. Annoying having x number of Unprotected VMs reported every day when it is perfectly ok and should not be reported as an error.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> improve vDisk copy delete function and progress

Deleting a vDisk copy in the DRP pool can be a long process if the copy is compressed or deduplicated. Unfortunately, you can not figure out how long it will take. This would require a display in the GUI and a command on the command line. During t...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Enable an Audit trail for VM and applications

Auditing – Enable a Audit trail for VM and applications. Audit trail is for jobs currently and doesn't provide info on object i.e. it says restore job started and completed but doesnt show the VMs recovered. From an auditing point of view customer...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide meaningfull names for volumes created by HyperSwap volume pair allocation by CLI and GUI

When allocating an HyperSwap volume pair, the client input naming the HyperSwap volume (let's assume it is new_HS_volume) is only used to name the Master copy of the quadruplet created by the allocation dialogue. The 3 other volumes (Auxiliary, Ma...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support for ROCE Tape drives in ISP

Hello, If ISP would support ROCE tape drives like TS1155/TS1160 this would deliver following advantages:- ISP could run in a VM and support Tape which is currently not possible with FC Tape drives due to Fibrechannel limitations. - ROCE attached t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Support TSM Storage Agent to be used in virtual machines for "Serverfree" backup to shared disk

IBM GPFS is a supported file system for performing "server free" backups to shared disks (similar to LANfree backups, which are going from a TSM client system with TSM for SAN directly to a tape). At the moment, this method (Server free backup to ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - offloading data

The data offload/data copy options currently available in Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.7 do not offer enough flexibility in terms of what data types can be sent to what offload destination (cloud or repository server).If you also want to send SPP da...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP filesystem backup support

SPP Physical server backup server support is required mainly for file server
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multi-Tenancy for Encryption Keys

Secure Multi-Tenancy:Each tenant's data is encrypted with an encryption key that is unique to that tenant, to cryptographically protect each tenant's data from all other tenants (e.g. if they inadvertently gained access to it).
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

To pull graphical representing reports from operation center

Add a feature to pull reports in form of bar/pie, graphical representing reports from operation Centre.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration