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Policy Based replication - Keep the target volume mapped to the host when the source volume is removed from the source volume group

On Policy Based replication, When I remove a volume from the source volume group, it should only remove the volume from the target volume group, the volume should not get removed from the array or mapping. It should still be available under the ho...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Configure TSM4VE without SP Admin Access

IBM Storage Protect is a popular Service Provider product and it is possible to buy backup functionality using IBM Storage Protect as a backup engine. But all of them is created to only run old legacy backup like installing client in the operating...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

MGR Dashboard LDAP/AD Integration

Integrating AD/LDAP domains for user authentication to ceph mgr dashboard. This would benefit users in access restriction and user management with role-based access. For example, AD users would be able to authenticate using their own domain creden...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage CEPH 1 Functionality already exists

Implement the possibility to balance host I/O throttling on cache partition level

When TS7700 runs into host I/O throttling, this throttling is equal across all CPx partitions today. Since work load on different CPx may have higher or lower priority in the business/application context, it is required to have the possibility to ...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus hardware snapshot support

Spectrum Protect Plus currently do not support hardware snapshots as the current Spectrum Protect Snapshot a.k.a. FCM software does - and current Spectrum CDM has no option to recover (flash-revert) the production copy from a snapshot.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Able to temporary disable a SMB or NFS export on protocol nodes.

There is no way to temporary disable and SMB or NFS exports. The only way is to delete the export. (At least for SMB exports) It would be more convenient and less likely that you make an error if you could disable it instead of delete it. It would...
28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enhanced CSM Notification with priority and persistence functionality

Adding the ability to make an alert persistent by selection would allow for some level of prioritization for critical type alerts versus non critical or informational type alerts. Currently the alerts are one shot. The alerts are not redriven at a...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.13 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

VTS - Simplify RSYSLOG and TLS configuration

Currently to enable RSYSLOG with TLS is cumbersome and not the same as on other interfaces like TSSC. As documented RSyslog - IBM Documentation one has to add specific certificates with an alias to enable or disable TLS for the RSYSLOG connections...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

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