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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...

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Enable option to manually add ESXi host for restore onto

Restore function request – Recover to ESXi host - should option to manually add rather than just poll inventorised ESXi hosts
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM details in Dashboard

Show list of VMs protected and SLA protected under and VMs not protected as a list in the Dashboard. Customers want to know which VMs have successfully backed up overnight and which have failed. The Dashboard does a good job of showing this at an ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for nested LDAP groups and a test LDAP function

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups and enable a test function for LDAP setup
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

move or migrate cloud container

There's no way or support to move or migrate the content of a cloud container.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

pNFS Support

Support pNFS (specifically, multiple pNFS CES clusters for any given number of filesystems). There appears to be support for pNFS within the GPFS Ganesha FSAL but at present it's not documented, certainly not supported, and doesn't seem to work.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

3 sites Support

Hi, we are receiving requirements about 3 Site Support. It is very necessary for our Customer. This a mandatory requirement from regulator.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SQL log backup status

The status of the SQL log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. The Dashboard or on the section named Application - SQL - Backup would be helpful.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support for non paged mechanism in IBM CSM Flash Copy Manager for z/OS (CSMFCM)

The CSMFCM does not have a non paged mechanism that can survive a freeze. If the page disks are in the configuration the CSMFCM itself get frozen and therefore could not issue the thaw. Therefore it falls on the hardware ELB for the thaw to occur.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration