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Check Backed up OpenShift Resources through Fusion UI

Only way to verify backed up resources within a namespace is using scripts. Doing this through Fusion UI is going to be a lot better. Specially in larger OCP deployments.
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to Spectrum Scale event alerting mechanism to allow event correlation

Spectrum Scale has long provided mechanisms to alert about events. In the past, it was common to use callbacks to do that. Today, Scale provides webhooks that can be received by consumers. Also, mmhealth today provides a good source of info about ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Export operations increased to 256kB blocksize

IBM labs has detected Export operations blocksize to be a performance bottleneck.All other tape operations are said to use 256kB blocksize whilst Export operations use 32kB blocksize. The request is to start using 256kB blocksize for Export operat...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Support for EMC PowerMax storage systems

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Add wait=yes to audit command

We would like to have a "wait=yes" option to the audit volume command. I think this should be done since audit container has this option.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 SSL cetficate for AWS

My client would like to use a certifcate for the SSL connection to AWS S3 buckets.
12 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Needs more information

Connect TS7700 to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants to be able to connect their TS7700 to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key.
12 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for HPe 3PAR

Customer (a large SP and competition (mainly for VMware) user) is running an RFI concerning backup/recovery. Part of this RFI is protection of VMware. Customer is using HP 3PAR hardware for their VMware vSphere enviroment.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Support for VMID

Increases Visibility of VM traffic: VM-ID tags can be used by the Hypervisor and FC switches to understand the data flowing acrossits environment to better monitor outages or determining heavier traffic at different points along the path to help m...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

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