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VM Restore Types - Change Naming

Change the VM restore naming types – They are confusing mostly because test creates an active clone and clone doesnt! In my opinion Test should be renamed Instant Access (can still create an active clone that you can move into production or cleanu...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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

Proactive alerting

Proactive alerts setup to alert when CPU, memory, configuration catalog, recovery catalog and file catalog are reaching 75%+ to flag more resources will be required shortly.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Separate expiration of decommissioned nodes

When having many decommissioned nodes the expire inventory process tend to run for a very long time (more then 24 hrs). This upset the normal housholding tasks in administrative schedules. Suggest expiration of decommissioned nodes are run in a se...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

All server-side command to control which SP server a client connects to as primary

Allow Spectrum Protect administrator to issue a command that will alert a node it should connect to a different SP server as a primary.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

User unable to query fileset if permissions are root as owner and user as group

It is not unusual for user directories permissions to be set where root is the owner and the user is the group for operational reasons. However this leads to the situation where user have a degraded level of service as they cannot query their file...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Linux File Indexing without Root

We have not been able to expand use of SPP in our environment because Operating System Admins are unwilling to grant us accounts with root-level privileges. Can we get a list of the commands that SPP uses that require root-level permissions? The t...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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

FS9500 - inbound CHAP where we can manipulate the secret per host bases

ISCSI- Mutual Chap authentication Inbound: We see option to set system wide chap secret authentication for ISCIS attached hosts. Currently IBM offering System wide chap (being configured via chsystem CLI) is used for two way chap authentication wh...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Rebalancing datamovers for a TAG-based schedule should exclude EXCLUDED VMs

When running a command to rebalance assigned datamovers for a TAG-based schedule I was surprised that the VMs with TAG 'Ecxluded' of category 'Backup Management (IBM Spectrum Protect)' was included and had a datamover-tag assigned. The rebalancing...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration