IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    VM recovery problem

    Hypervisor vmvare.There is a VM with many connected disks, about 50 TB.Only disk 1 is backed up and needs to be restored.When we start recovery of only the first disk, the recovery mechanism checks for free space in the storage not for disk 1, but...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Support ZFS on Linux Client

    We use FreeBSD servers with ZFS filesystems on our large storage systems. Since there is no native FreeBSD Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client, we intend to use the Linux version leveraging FreeBSD's Linux runtime environment. But the SP Backup...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    IBM CSM to Stop Keeping Trying to Authenticate a Logged in User if Authentication Fails Once

    CSM appears to have a mechanism where periodically it will re-authenticate the logged in users. This becomes a problem if the user's credentials have changed since the last time they logged into CSM, CSM will keep trying to re-authenticate the ses...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

    allow encryption of database backups not only for cloud but also for tape and file

    Please allow encryption of database backups not only for cloud but also for tape and file device classes. This is a requirement from security regulations in Germany.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    When creating a support case, email contacts need to be included

    When a support ticket is created within SI, no email contacts are included to alert the creator/team that the ticket exists or has updates. You must manually go check the ticket periodically to see if any updates have been posted. Could allow a de...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

    DMS/Data Protect - Add DB2 backup support for other architectures (ppc64, s390x)

    Today, DB2 backups are only supported on x86. Mainframe and Power customers would like to see DB2 for other architectures supported.
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    Ability to replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP

    Ability to Replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP, not only new backups that happens after the replication is setup (as happen today).
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Protection copy for On-Premise Cloud Containers

    On Premise Storage like Cloud Object Storage (COS) and other vendor solutions gives the ability, to use modern data protection with on premise cloud storage pools. In the age of cyber crime and ransomware, it is very important and a business requi...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Directory Container Erasure Coding

    I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Improve alerting when "Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working

    We have noticed that “Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working our 9500 arrays causing gaps in our performance data. This has happened before on our arrays and there is no alerting that tells us, either on the array, or within Storag...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

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