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TS7700 Multiple NTP Server Addresses for Redundancy

This would be a robust configuration if the TS7700 MI can allow multiple entries for NTP time servers (just like the DS8950 MI), and/or allow LTM/GTM IP addresses and have one IP address that goes on a round robin of available NTP servers in the p...
about 2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

vSnap – migrate data from one vSnap to another vSnap

vSnaps of SPP are created but in the lifecycle the amount of data will increase. When a new vSnap is needed to increase capacity at the moment only new VMs will be backed up to this vSnap. To migrate data of vSnaps you need to create a new policy:...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Secure Data Deletion/Erase with IBM to automatically generate a confirmation document

After succesful deletion/erase of data on drives, an IBM document of comfirmation would help to comply with internal client security guidelines Currently we can use:- SV internal commands chdrive -task erase/format commands or we can provide- Secu...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

File list limited for 1000 lines using restore node commnad

Hi team, we are using restore node NODE_NAME /FS FILELIST=FILE:/list_files_in_HEX.txt nametype=HEXadecimal. We are restoring data from NAS node. Customer is using France Diacritics in DIR and File names which impact filler on NAS side. Filler is u...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Enable TS7700 for Open Systems bei Adding the S3 Protocol

The TS700 has everything enterprise customers need. It has backend tape, it is a grid, it has all replication capabilities and so on. It could be the perfect system for multipetabyte data from open systems, e.g. tiering from data to tape out of co...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Provide backup policy selection criteria for OCPVirt VM workloads that is more granular than OCP project level.

Goal: minimize potential for "backup storms" overwhelming CPU and network When a cluster admin installs and configures OpenShift virtualization they need to make design decisions up front about how to support grouping of VMs into specific Project/...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Automatic Safegurded volumes to s3 or COS

With safeguarded copy, we have a fantastic solution to provide an immutable copy of a volume. Rapid recovery is effective if the volume resides on the storage array, however, with ransoware taking 200+ days to detect, it is less likely this volume...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

SSO login for CLI

For a while now, there's MFA SSO support for the Storage Virtualize GUI. However to comply with our internal security policy, we also need to enable this for CLI access to our storage systems. Please add CLI login support to the authentication met...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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