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Defender Data Protect/Replica

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    Data Management Service: Clusters should show a warning on Summary dashboard when in a disconnected state

    DMS works much like Data Protect local console. It is very simple to use, but the health status can be misleading. Clusters should show a warning on Summary dashboard when in a disconnected state
    almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

    Defender Data Protect Agent needs to support customer-issued CA certificates

    Especially for big customers with their own customer CA, we NEED to support their own certificates with Defender Data Protect agents to comply with their strict security requirements.
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0

    DMS/Data Protect NAS backup: Would be helpful if Scale GUI+CES+NFS requirement was displayed in Web GUI

    Using Storage Scale for NAS backup requires Scale GUI+CES+NFS. While this is noted in the documentation, it would be helpful if this was indicated in the GUI.
    almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

    Support Linux on Z for DMS / Data Protect

    Currently today the Defender Data Management Service / Data Protect only supports backups of x86 and Power. The IBM CIO team needs support for Linux on Z. They'd like to see the backup agent ported to Linux on Z. Other mainframe customers may want...
    almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    Support for Tanzu TKGi

    Some bigger customers are heavily invested in Tanzu, this includes Tanzu TKGi. Right now we don't support this with Defender Data Protect.
    10 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    DMS/Data Protect - Add DB2 backup support for other architectures (ppc64, s390x)

    Today, DB2 backups are only supported on x86. Mainframe and Power customers would like to see DB2 for other architectures supported.
    almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    Support for SAP/Oracle running on AIX with Defender Data Protect

    Many customers use SAP with Oracle on AIX. Since DDP already supports Oracle standalone on AIX, and SAP/Oracle on x86_64, is there roadmap to include SAP/Oracle on AIX as well?
    about 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Being able to trigger/initiate replication from a target server

    This idea is following a discussion with a customer who is asking our data protection solutions ( being Storage Protect and Data Protect) to have the ability to trigger data replication in a way that replication is initiated by the target replicat...
    almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Not under consideration

    Data Protect/DMS - support denser x86 servers, external JBODs, Fibre Channel attached storage (i.e. FlashSystem)

    Ready Nodes not dense enough per RU in current iteration for large enterprises. Number of nodes also adds number of networking connections needed / TOR switches. This adds complexity and cost. We want to use dense COS-like tech with external JBODs...
    almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    Defender Data Protect backup all Kubernetes OpenShift namespaces

    Openshift namespaces which starts with a preffix "openshift-" are system namespaces and usually they do not contain any persistent volume claim or any significant YAML object which can't be reproduce on another cluster. On the other hand, there is...
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

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