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Defender Data Protect/Replica

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    On premises S3 as a source for protection

    Many customers are starting to ask for on premises S3 to be protected as part of their daily routine. Defender DP can currently protect S3 data based on AWS ( https://docs.cohesity.com/7_1_2/Web/UserGuide/Content/Cloud/protect-amazon-s3.htm?Highli...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1

    add full DB2 Backup and Restore support to DDP

    we use DDP for VMware, AD, MS SQL, Container, Mongo DB, physical server, clusters and as an S3 target for all applications without agent support or embedded S3 support. Our biggest workload, IBM DB2, is the only application still on ISP. That make...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Defender Data Protect (DDP) Configuration Backup

    Why is it useful? A DDP configuration backup is essential for quick recovery and business continuity in isolated environments without a remote cluster. Without it, a DDP server failure means manual re-configuration and re-onboarding, leading to si...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information

    Defender Data Protect support for OpenStack

    Defender Data Protect currently lacks support for backup and restore of OpenStack environments that are commonly in use with many MSPs and large clients and Defender Data Protect needs to provide native backup/restore capabilities for this environ...
    10 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Adding multipath support for FC backup

    One of our customers has Cohesity cluster (12 nodes - Dell PowerEdge 760XL). Each server has 1 HBA (32Gb) with 2 ports and it`s connected to 2 Cisco switches (according to Cohesity recommendations). The problem is all my 12 nodes working through 1...
    11 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

    Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Planned for future release

    Enable Web Proxy for DMS agent communication to IBM Cloud

    Build in a option to configure the use of a web proxy to enable the DMS agent for Storage Protect to communicate with the IBM Cloud for Storage Protect servers that do not/cannot have direct access to the internet and require a web proxy for inter...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Needs more information

    Data Protect as part of IBM Storage Defender and improvement for cluster-failover

    Assume there are two Data Protect Clusters in metro-distance (<30km). Both clusters are loosely coupled only. Just backup data itself are mirrored asynchronously, but no meta-data. What are the issues with that? As a consequence, in case of a f...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Add GKLM Protection and Overview to Defender

    The GKLM Installation is critical for some Defender Installations because it provides the keys to encrypt tape and disk storage used in Defender. It should be seen in Defender as Ressource and Data Protect should be able to protect the instance.
    9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Implementing purging algorithms

    Protection > Recoveries view will not be purged, only some detail information for recovery tasks older than a month.
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

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