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Allow editable threshold settings and client and/or type of client exceptions for security notifications

Please make the thresholds for Operations Center Security notifications an editable setting. We have hundreds of security notifications daily that are not being reviewed since we can't manage them. Also many are API clients, which would typically ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

vSnap – zfs enhancements

vSnaps of SPP are build with zfs. zfs provides management capabilities like enlarging virtual disks, moving data from one virtual disk to another, .... standard LVM stuff vSnap does not support.The only mechanism vSnap support is "add virtual disk...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

DB2 on zLinux backup & restore

Request for Spectrum Protect Plus to backup and restore DB2 databases running under zLinux
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for KVM

We see more and more activity where people are leaving VMware for something that are better and cheaper. So we see more offend companies that want to replace VMware with KVM/oVirt so they can combine it with Openstack or similar automated hypervisor.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Support for IBM Spectrum Scale SafeguardCopy in Spectrum Protect as enhanced Cybercrime Solution for the Spectrum Protect Server Platform

In the area of cyberattacks its necessary to enhance the data-security in Spectrum Protect Installations. These attacks are coming. If we can immplement the scale safeguard Copy function in an spectrum protect installation for our GPFS Conf, DB, l...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Easy R/W failover for a replicated node

In a ISP environment using the Node Replication feature, the R/O client failover is automated since version 7.1.1 of the ISP server. It works fine, but allows only the restore or retrieve of objects.If the source server is unavailable for a longer...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Emergency/recovery encryption key generation for External Disk Encryption with TS7700

On DS8K there is an option for creating an emergency/Recovery Key on a USB stick - a final resort in case the GKLM setup is fully damaged. Such 'final backdoor option' is not existing for TS7700. We absolutely need same functionality for the TS7700.
12 months ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

Add performance monitoring for fileset and storage pool per client node

When a storage pool or fileset is close to being filled up, it is possible to identify which client node is exerting the most write pressure through performance monitoring. This allows the relevant business unit to be notified to make adjustments.
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration