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    Add Storage Class Attribute to Data Pushed to S3

    When pushing data to S3 via the Cloudgateway service it would be helpful to be able to specify the storage class. If you don't specify the storage class the data will be stored in S3 Standard. You can create a Lifecycle policy to push the data to ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Creation of the O365 account automatically from SPP

    When configuring backup of O365 the account and all required permissions shall be automatically applied from SPP
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Average DS8K power consumption command

    My customer is interested in monitoring the power consumption of the DS8K. Apparently there's no command or any other easy way to obtain it, so they would like to be able to get the average power consumption with a command in a similar way as they...
    about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Defender Data Protect backup all Kubernetes OpenShift namespaces

    Openshift namespaces which starts with a preffix "openshift-" are system namespaces and usually they do not contain any persistent volume claim or any significant YAML object which can't be reproduce on another cluster. On the other hand, there is...
    10 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

    S3 target on DS8

    Consolidation of infrastructure (storage) on to a single platform
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    SMB DFS root

    Support Samba "msdfs root" option.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Fix ANS1715E different virtual machine UUID error message

    When backing up a virtual machine for which the UUID has changed, the following error is thrown:ANS4308E Full VM backup of 'Hyper-V' Virtual Machine 'WS50115' failed with RC=4379 mode=Incremental Forever - Incremental, target node name='CLSIM261_H...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Protect virtual machines with shared virtual harddisks (shared VHDX or VHDSet)

    We rely heavily on guest clustering for high availability. Virtualization delivers availability at the server level, but not at the application level. If a machine goes down unexpectedly, Hyper-V will bring it up on another Hyper-V host, but from ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    ESS K8S CSI Should Have GPFS Node Health Sanity Checking

    The IBM Spectrum Scale CSI Driver does not do any sanity checking with regard to the GPFS remote cluster status of the K8S node it is running on. The CSI driver should not allow the K8S scheduler to schedule any pods that require ESS storage on th...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus support for HNAS CSI Driver

    Hitachi HNAS CSI Driver support is needed to backup Openshift persistent volumes with IBM's Spectrum Protect Plus. HNAS CSI Driver Documentation URL link: https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Storage/NAS_Platform/Best_practices/Hitachi_N...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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