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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

Oracle RAC One Node with Spectrum Protect Plus

We need a protection with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration with 2 servers nodes and differents db instances in the both nodes. In the Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.x fail applications inventory with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

check if underlying file system is mounted when creating a NFS share

When a new NFS share is created, the mmnfs command should check if the underlying file system is mounted on all CES nodes and fail if this precondition is not fulfilled.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Log backup of SQL system databases

Log backup of SQL system databases should be supported in Spectrum Protect Plus
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Data Foundation Metro-DR - automate or remove manual steps to have to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover

Currenty, in a Metro-DR topology, when Data Policy is invoked (from ACM), there is a requirement to manually delete PVCs in an Metro-DR Data Policy App Failover. In our env these PVCs were orginially StatefulSets. But the source OCP cluster has be...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Spectrum Virtualize Upgrade Utility is not aware of invalid multipathing configrations before upgrade

The SVC/Storwize/Virtualize Upgrade Utility does not check to see if proper multipathing is in place before code upgrades. This is a massive effort and could be done from the storage side by checking the number of host facing paths seen by the dev...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC Does not warn of logical path loss to hosts

SVC Logical Path Loss. The Storage Admins are not aware of a SVC Logical Path loss. The Storage Admin is reactive when this happens due to not being alerted of the issue. Unable to be proactive and when server losses sight of storage. If Storage i...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control Probe Execution Scheduling Customization below 24 hours

The Data Collection Schedule or Probe Scheduling does not go below an "Every Day" or 24 hours. I would like to be able to schedule the probe to execute multiple times through out a 24 hour period. Having the capability to customize the schedule to...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Future consideration

Progression of manual backup/restore in DP for Exchange GUI (Task Details)

We have had several customers complain that "Task Details" in DP for Exchange GUI are not updated until a task finishes.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under 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