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Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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

TS7760 / Introduce 10GB Ethernet SW

A French customer, CNP Assurance use only 10 GbE SW in their network.The 3 TS7760 the just bought in 2019 don't use it and they need to install a 10 GbE LW just for the TS7760.They think it is a old fashioned tech and wants to abandon it.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

allow VM exclusion via tagging in Spectrum Protect Plus

please add the capability to exclude VMs based upon specific vSphere Tags, in addition to the ability to include via tagging.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Pool level mirroring - Protected Pools

The ability to mirror at the pool layer by creating a pool as a mirror pool to an existing pool (protection pool). Any volume that lands into the PRIMARY pool is automatically mirrored to the secondary protection pool. Removing the volume from the...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Snooze alert in Storage Insights

As a SI user admin , I want to be able to Snooze a notification so that I can prioritize the work to be done
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Operations Centre to validate internet access via a proxy

New Feature in Operations center to manage client autodeploy us currently inoperative if the Customer is running a WEB Proxy as the current release 8.1.4 or the OC cannot authenticate itself for web access and hence can't download the required pac...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SVC Role based authentication

Current users in SVC generally have root level access to all pools and LUNs. Would like to add additional roles such as monitor-level and roles restricted to certain disk pools.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

install mounting brackets for PDU's in Factory for all drive and library frames

The IBM TS4500 (3584) ships mounting bracket PN 45E6651 and Pn 45E6652 ONLY if PDU feature code 1951 is ordered. It is impossible to get these brackets in the field. This is also the perfect place for a customer to install a bulk fiber termination...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration