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    SPP report creation

    Spectrum Protect Plus has very interesting reports, but we need some individual views in virtual machine backup. We need to know, for example, the time and end of the backup of a respective VM individually and not just the time that the total SLA ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    VM's Removing from SLA

    We have identified and issue where VM's are automatically removing from SLA due to xyz reason and got to know this is as per design. So we should have some info report where we can see how many VM's removed automatically from SLA after last backup...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect for VE restore only one disk, default space issue

    Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Restore Issue. The product design only permits these options when you want to restore only one individual unit like c: 1. If the target guest does not exist yet, space will be assigned on the datastore for...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Increase limit for number of independent filesets

    Limiting the number of independent filesets to 1000 is a showstopper. Some features we are using require independent filesets (We are using --per-fileset-quota and --filesetdf. We are also considering using fileset snapshots for backup on this sys...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Separation of SCSI UNMAP and other offload workloads from offload throttle

    SCSI UNMAP rate can oversubscribe backend storage, and rate can be reduced with application of offload throttle on cluster. But this bring other challenges where this offload throttle also throttles XCOPY and other related offload workloads - whic...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Show commands when running script with multiple CLI commands

    I work with CLI more often than with GUI when provisioning and configuring DS8000. There is a possibility to run multiple CLI commands using a text file. It works well and it is super useful. It would be nice to see commands that have actually bee...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    SPP - Enable 'disable log capability' to SQL Ad Hoc Backup

    In an SQL Always-On (clustered) DB restore, we need the ability to disable log backups using the SQL Ad-Hoc backup function.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Being able to trigger/initiate replication from a target server

    This idea is following a discussion with a customer who is asking our data protection solutions ( being Storage Protect and Data Protect) to have the ability to trigger data replication in a way that replication is initiated by the target replicat...
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Class Encryption at rest i n Spectrum Protect Plus

    Please add an encryption at rest capability with KMIP integration for external key management systems such as IBM SKLM
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support Soft-RoCE drivers

    As 100/200 Gigabit RoCE technologies mature, not all clients are able to leverage the same "hard" RoCE HBAs and associated drivers such as Mellanox, which is the currently supported device driver. This request recognizes there are some HBAs that m...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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