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Connection to CLOUD through of DNS ALIAS not IP FIXED

In the configuration of CLOUD in TS7770C, in the GUI, the URL what should be used , is a "IP FIXED" (for example, HTTPS://192.xxx.xxx.xx) . It's not possible use a "DNS" name. I think is more versatile the use of the DNS ALIAS vs IP FIXED. I think...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Under review

SI/SC don't show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices

Today, neither SI nor SC show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices, only the physical WWPN. Since the direction is to use NPIV only for host attachment, this prevents important information related to host connectivity being visible.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

allow SPP to intelligent selection for VADP transport mode

testing has shown that if using a virtual VADP proxy, the HotAdd transport is good for large amounts of data transfer, but NBD is better for smaller data transfers since there is a small amount of time spent establishing HotAdd. It would be good t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Safeguard Copy to S3 storage

Allow the ability to schedule safeguard copies off site to S3 storage either on another platform or in the cloud.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Ability to name backup

Customer needs the ability to specify the name of backup jobs.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Mount retention for sequential file volumes

Currently, mount retention is disable for sequential file device classes. In many cases in real-world use, this can cause a storm of mount/unmount operations if any migration, reclamation, backup, or restore processes rapidly cycle between a handf...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enabling etcd Key Value Store Backups in Fusion Backup

Realized this is a duplicate request with: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPFUS-I-70 OCP operational best practices recommend protecting etcd if you are responsible for the availability of the Kubernetes cluster and the built-in etcd ...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Display grace period of 30 minutes between 2 log collections in task failure message

When attempting to collect logs from a storage subsystem, a user can received the following message when the task fails: " Uploading system logs for system XXX to ticket TS0123456789. The log package for the device with serial number YYY for ticke...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SPF-I-3280 .. regarding this idea .. can you please explain how this function is working

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

AWS PrivateLink Endpoint support for S3

It is desired to use an AWS PrivateLink endpoint to access AWS S3 as an object storage provider to Spectrum Protect Plus, with AWS S3 region support. To do this, it must be possible to register AWS S3 to Spectrum Protect Plus by specifying an arbi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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