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Understanding of spectrum Discover tables

As part of the use of CP4D it is important for Airbus to know the exact use of each of the tables that we could or should 'integrate' or not into CP4D/Cognos for example. This request aims to identify, for example, tables presenting data that has ...
11 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

add a NetApp Snapshot based backup and restore functionality to SPP

Addition of a function to secure NetApp file server with SPP on vSnap server. This should be done on the basis of NetApp snapshots. The feature should be able to replace the current Spectrum Protect feature for NetApp data protection at the file l...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

ANR0991I alert/notification implementation

As you can see in the support case ID there is no possibility to receive alerts or notifications for the ANR0991I when Spectrum protect server s are shutdown. In the operational center the possibility seems to be there but it's triggering nothing....
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Add alert condition with " Normal status"

I would like to create an alert that trigger for example when the host connection is <=1, but this alert should not trigger when customer is performing a code upgrade or rebooting a node , this is the reason I need a condition that that say Nod...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SPP should support running different code levels on the SPP server and vSnap servers during migration/upgrades

SPP customers running a single SPP server with many vSnap servers need to be able to upgrade the SPP code in the environment in a controlled/phased manner. This means that they need to upgrade the SPP server and vSnap servers at different times an...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM4VE Cloud Service Provider Mode

Because of all ransomware attacks we see more transformations from other backup vendors back to IBM Storage Protect for VE, but the issue with TSM4VE is that it demanding a System Account in the Storage Protect Server to be able to work, we have d...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Storage Rule Exclude Function

Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Better Information for Storage Rule

If we run any Storage rule like Replication or Tiering of data between pools and we see it failed of some reasons. A natural way to investigate a issue is to run the same command manually using wait=yes and in that way get more information, but ve...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Automatic update check should be disabled

We want the current versions not to be searched automatically when we enter the administrative interface, A button can be placed for this and only those who want to upgrade over the internet can use this feature.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Consistent VDisk copy protection during ESC Incremental Resynch and/or Volume Migration

During volume migration and volume copy incremental synchronization in stretch cluster configurations, until the second copy is consistent again, the loss of the primary site will command restoring data from tape backup into the second site capaci...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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