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    Archive feature for S3 compatible devices

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus supports Amazon S3 Glacier to archive backup data.But for S3 compatible devices it only supports standard object storage buckets not archive.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/does-ibm-spectrum-protect-plus-support-s3-comp...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Add SAML support

    At the present time, SAML does not seems to be supported, only LDAP.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    select more than 20 nodes (VM's) per vCenter for Backup

    In the vCenter plugin extension we can select only 20 VM's. If we select more, we will get an error, that only 20 are possible in one backup. In some cases (failed backups) we need to restart more than 20 VMs from the vCenter GUI.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Dynamic Workload Re-Balancing between vSnaps in a single site

    More dynamic workload distribution would be a great feature to add into SPP. For example vSnap 1 is 75% full and newly added vSnap 2 is 5% full therefore migrate some of the existing snapshots (base and incremental) to vSnap 2 for dynamic workload...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Option to update server certificate via command line

    Official CA server certificates have to be exchanged every year. There should be a method, other than the GUI, to replace these certificates automatically (via ansible, puppet, etc.). Therefore a command line option (scp) is needed!
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Expand DRAID and change geometry

    We should be able to grow or shrink an existing RAID by any rational number of disks. At each operation, there would have to be data movement and array rebuilds. Relocate the first chunk, then rebuild those stripes based on the new geometry (and r...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Support ILM pool migrations in stretched cluster without killing WAN

    Currently when migrating files between replicated storage pools in a stretched cluster, intense load is experienced on the WAN. This is because the migration is essentially a copy of the files (hopefully?? respecting readReplicaPolicy) and the wri...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Check the GM subordinate even if there are no copyset in it.

    Currently CSM only queries for copysets that are actively participating in a session. If we have a session with a subordinate with no more copysets on the subordinate, CSM doesn't check the state of the subordinate. Adding a check of the subordina...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    MS SQL support for Linux Host (both physical and virtual)

    Customer will start tests this year with MS SQL on Linux. This will be tested on physical machines as well as on virtual appliances. They also need to backup this databases. At the moment ISP for Databases and ISP4VE only supports MS-SQL on Windows.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    CSM API token generation without a user ID & password

    Using CSM API, we are planning to manage our recovery procedures. But the major roadblock is password generation for CSM. Because of audit concerns we cannot have a static password for a ID. So, because of this, we are unable to make the procedure...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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