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Backup & Restore of NSX network interfaces/Tags using Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for VE

Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments need to include the option ofbackup/restore of VMware NSX virtual networking devices and its Security Tags into the VMare VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infras...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Search for VM backup status

On a regular basis we are asked 'did my VM backup' or 'how long did my VM backup take'. There is currently no way of searching for his information directly within the SPP GUI, instead job logs have to be downloaded as a CSV and imported into excel...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable automatic upload of log files / snaps when a Call Home is triggered and case created

Like Spectrum Scale has this option Event-based uploads: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.0?topic=upload-event-based-uploads , can a similar option be created in Spectrum Virtualize so when a Call Home is triggered and a case is open...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Only restore blocks needed for VM restore

Customer has requested if it would be possible to only recover the needed blocks to restore a VM back to a desired point in time. Customer stated that in previous tools this was the method used and that it reduced the time needed to do a restore. ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improvement to the upgrading process of MGMT server

The upgrade process is apparently not perfect. I was "kicked" out from the upgrade progress page, before process completed and that can cause confusion? The reason i was kicked out, was that the update components/package was updated ? A suggestion...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

FS9500 - inbound CHAP where we can manipulate the secret per host bases

ISCSI- Mutual Chap authentication Inbound: We see option to set system wide chap secret authentication for ISCIS attached hosts. Currently IBM offering System wide chap (being configured via chsystem CLI) is used for two way chap authentication wh...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Expand SP S3 object client interface to allow targeting tape for users outside of SPP

Multiple customers have requested that we allow Spectrum Protect to receive data via S3 and store that data on tape. They need a deep/cold archiving solution with air-gap and optional immutability and encryption at-rest support.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

adding back CLOSE_WRITE to watchfolder and mmwatch

as a customer , we need to get informed , when a file gets closed, but only, if the file was changed ... we are not interessted on CLOSEs , when the file content was not changed. To sort out millions of false positives of thise unchanged CLOSE cal...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP RESTORE PRODUCTION

Our vmware team found a problem using the production restore method. They saw that just before the final step of the process, SPP makes vcenter delete the original virtual machine so that it could create the new one with the same unique identifier...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Vmmaxvirtualdisks bigger than 8 TB

We have customers with disk bigger than 8 TB.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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