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    Backup & Restore of NSX network interfaces/Tags using Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for VE

    Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments need to include the option ofbackup/restore of VMware NSX virtual networking devices and its Security Tags into the VMare VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infras...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms.

    Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms. ANE4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC=rc mode=full_or_incr, target node name='target_node_name', data ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Ransomware Information

    Information about Client anomaly is reported into the table ACTLOG in Column "MESSAGE" with VARCHAR (3001) - ANR3692W A client backup anomaly... This information is nice but not practical to get selected/grouped information from it. I think all ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    DEACTIVATE FILESPACE

    Based on the principle of new commands, DEACTIVATE and DECOMMISSION, which act on the nodes,we should be able to go down to the file system level.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Spectrum Control

    Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Spectrum Control. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    REPLICATE NODE * DOMAIN=OFFSITE_*

    Ability to replicate all nodes in one or more policy domains. Presently, only by node_name, or by nodegroup. There is no way to automatically update a nodegroup membership list.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    DEFINE STGRULE with directory container target

    DEFINE STGRULE needs to allow directory containers as target pools, not just cloud pools.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    SPP filesystem backup support

    SPP Physical server backup server support is required mainly for file server
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    RAS improvements - "mmlsnvmestatus" also check "lbaf", "ms" and "rp"

    It is desired to have "mmlsnvmestatus" also check "lbaf", "ms" and "rp" (Spectrum Scale ECE, RTC Issue 267159)
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Make VSNAP Application Independent of OS Kernel

    ISPP VSNAP Application on Physical Server is bound to specific Kernel Version. Upgrade of Redhat Version cause Application to fail and it doesnot come up.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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