IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Protecting Wide Cluster resources using Fusion UI

    If we want to protect any cluster resources of any namespace, We have to create a recipe and assign it to specific application
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    Request for extra RHEL8 packages in ESS

    We have a list of OS packages that we would love to have included in ESS 6.x.x.x, now that we no longer can install any RHEL package like we could in ESS v5. Inclusion of any of the below packages is helpful for us, if you say no to some packages ...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    SQL Service User per SQL instance

    We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SCDM -Change virtual restore SCSI controller from VMware LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual

    SCDM RFE - Currently, when SCDM performs restores of the virtual environment, it creates a SCSI controller in the vCenter that is set to LSI Logic SAS. The request is to change the SCSI controller from LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Metadata Search for Repository backups

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs the ability to keep track of VMware metadata for backups once a a backup is moved off to a repository or S3 location. Not having the ability search for metadata (file search) on long term repository backups defeat s...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support openSUSE as a GPFS client

    SLES is an officially supported Linux distribution for installing GPFS/Scale (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=gpfs-software-requirements). openSUSE is binary compatible with SLES as of version 15.3 (see https://www.suse.com/c...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives

    SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Allow prioritisation of policies

    Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    IBM SP Client/API encryption

    Allow the client and api to use external source for encryption keys storage, like SKLM.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Future consideration

    Provide encryption support to M2 internal disks to allow failed disks' removal at very large bank

    In case of a failed M2 disk in large bank or other information sensitive company, the lack of encryption support for internal disks prevents returning failed disks to IBM for repair because large banks command retaining all non encrypted disk in t...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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