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Add real rolling update function for CNSA Version Updates

Today if we make an Update on CNSA from one Version to the next one, we see no mangement of the applikationworkload on the OCP-worker. This generate outages in our applikation-pods that are not aceptable, because of high application service level....
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Operations Center - Management class - Custom retention time

When defining a management class from the Operations Center, there are only predefined values for the Backups, Keep Extra backups etc.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SI Reports filters not flexible

The reporting utility in SI is very good, but additional flexibility in the filter section is desirable.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC vPlex (VNXe/Unity)

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs and vPlex on VNXe/Unity for mission critical VMs.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SVC - Pool level Migration command

When introducing new storage arrays and creating a new pool, it would be nice to have a pool migration command to completely migrate 1 pool to another to more easily decommission older storage in a more timely manner.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SP server output file ownership/permissions

SP can output several types of files. For example, DRM recovery plans, backing up devconfig or volhist, select command output, etc. We can already control where to direct the output, i.e., directory structure and filename. Having the ability to al...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC Compellent

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs. Customer also use vPlex+VNXe for mission critical VMs.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP.

Hi Team, Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP. Security concern the AWS services to access via VPC only. Can you please update is IBM working development?. If yes, which version VPC option is available?
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

FlashSystem rails incompatible with 3rd party racks

Client / reseller reports issues with installation of current generation of IBM FlashSystem rack-mount rails within non-IBM racks. Previous generation Storwize rails (V3700 was mentioned) fit into the same racks without issue.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

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