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modify hostname for SYSLOG

Our syslog management have to get logs with a specific source name. We want to pu a personalized source name instead of the default of LinuxServer @ Adresse_SerialNumber_
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 6 Future consideration

Bare Metal Restore (BMR) from backupsets

I get confirmation from developer that we have no valuable workaround with the WINPE + ASR method . We will update the WINPE document .As said before you must open a RFE if you need this functionality to be added in the future.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Tag Data Mover available on folder level

Hello Currently it's not possible to configure Data Mover on a folder vmware for all VMs of this one and you have to do it manually one by one. And we have to not forget to do it each time a new vm is placed in this folder. Thanks for adding this ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Autoscaling of Storage Fusion HCI hosts for IBM Cloud Satellite

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Satellite supports autoscaling, however it’s limited to hosts already assigned to Cloud Satellite requiring pre-creation and allocation of host in Fusion to Cloud Satellite. In a Fusion HCI with multiple separate IBM...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Use Fusion master nodes as host for IBM Cloud Satellite master nodes

If you currently use Fusion HCI as host platform for IBM Cloud Satellite you will use the Fusion HCI worker nodes. This results in a underutilization of the Fusion HCI Master nodes. By enabling the IBM Cloud Satellite location master nodes on the ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Azure HCI support for SPP

Hallo Please consider support for Azure HCI.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Don't send alerts for tape drives cleaning in the library that it automatically has cleaned.

We got this alerts. "Job 521576/QSYS/QTAPARB Device NDCMLB02 needs to be cleaned. Cause . . . . . : The tape drive read/write heads have become dirty and need to be cleaned. Recovery . . . : Clean drive NDCMLB02 by following recommended cleaning...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Offer alerting creation based on variation of the metric

In the same way that this is offered today with "Storage System , capacity, total compression, changes ", any other attribute (from other cateogries and componenent) should allow to specifc a change % value as trigger of the alerting
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

TDP for VE 8.1.2 should not update the VMware guest notes field

Starting with IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments - Data protection for VMware 8.1.2.0, each completed VM backup updates the guest notes field.This can be a problem when that same notes field is used for other internal processes.There is...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

excel report output without nice formatting would be better

The reporting feature of Spectrum protect plus has two output formats. PDF and Excel.To work with the data in bulk, excel is the preferred output, but it has too much formatting applied. I need one line outputs. Not the server name on one line and...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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