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Spectrum Protect file-level client to support Isilon NAS changelist function.

The EMC Isilon has a Changelist function that shows the activity between snapshots. The request is to use that function to get a list of files to back up or expire (similar to the SnapDiff API on NetApp TSM currently exploits).
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 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

FILE class mount retention

Enable MOUNTRET on FILE class volumes.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to use VMware backup to recover SQL database

Customer have several hundered SQL servers of various importance. Customer want the ability to not only truncate SQL logs as part of the backup but also protect the SQL servers and use that backup to recover/re-use SQL databases.Customer want to d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Ability to import OVL into ESX host without vCenter

In previous versions with the CentOS based OVL it was possible to import the SPP OVL into an ESX host running without vCenter. For the latest 10.1.11, RedHat based OVL this function is not working.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM Library Audit command enhancement

We have TS3500 libraries that we try to do monthly audits on. In order to do the audits, all the drives in the library must be idle, unmounted. As we have grown, there is rarely if ever an instance when all the drives are idle, therefore, we canno...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

LDAP enhancements related to RFC2307 mappings on Spectrum Scale/GPFS Windows

Currently, GPFS Windows has functional, performance, and HA limitations related to the LDAP AD lookup. The details are documented in IBM Case Number: TS005919437. https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002YlqdkAAB/kosmos-gpfs-windows-filesyst...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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