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Improve VM Restore GUI

Remove the necessity of choosing "Type of Restore." Make one of the options (on-demand) the default. Add a button to show all available restore points without having to poke around in the calendar.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Safegard Copy functionality running on FS5015/5035

There are many small/medium companies in Japan. If the Safegard Copy function works with FS5015/5035, I believe I can aggressively propose it to small and medium-sized companies.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

More flexible cache options on Storwize

The caching algorithm does not have enough flexibility in assigning cache to storage pools. I would like to see selectable options: 1) Current (equal percent across storage pools) 2) Percentage based on amount of storage in the storage pool vs ove...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Failover Failback with Node Replication

Today Node Replication is more or less only constrained to DR. However after meeting with Greg Tavis and other developers it's clear that this feature is changing in the future to be able to backup and recover from both the source and the target s...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SPP support for Cloud applications

Customers start asking for data protection of cloud applications to a larger extent.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SIP & SC: allow wildcards in the exclude list for storage reclamation

Storage Insights for Spectrum Control environment: "Reclaim storage" is useful, but customers need more handle on the exclude list. Now they can exclude volumes from the reclaim storage list, but customer wants to exclude certain partial volume na...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Exchange 2010 Single Item Recovery from the Exchange mailbox database

We are using Spectrum Protect Server: Spectrum Protect Server EE Version 7.1.8.1 OS Version Windows 2012 R2 Standard Exchange Server / Client Side: BA Client Version 7.1.1 FlashCopy Manager for Exchange Version: 4.1.1.0 TDP for Mail Version 7.1.1 ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - Enhancement to allow Graceful or Forceful cancellation of a running VE Backup Schedule

Freddie Mac is a very strong user of TSM for VE, protecting over 4000 VMs in their environment using TSM for VE 7.1.4 version currently in production. They need more granular control over Running VE Schedules to be able to stop them either gracefu...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Prevent data moving processes starting up when expire inventory is running

Since expire inventory needs to be running more or less alone, preventing other datamoving tasks from running could reduce amount of failures to the DB tables that would render future expire inventory run into errors. Maybe something like this ex...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add a VM replication module (for BCP/BRP/DRP)

this new module would copy x vms towards another Vcenter. instead of configuring a copy towards a vsnap and define severals versions (retention), this new feature would copy vms toward another ESX, datastore (on another vcenter) with a SLA with re...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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