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    Isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster

    Need the ability to isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Alerting creation with OR condition

    Currently multi conditional condition rule are using AND condition, in some situation ( for example where the threshold is the same) it would be efficient to create one rule with a OR condition
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    OpenStack backup with Spectrum Protect Plus

    Our important customer is asking for remote API backup of OpenStack environment. Preferred support with Spectrum Protect Plus (as the extend container support) but Spectrum Protect API combination could be another variant.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Certificate based client validation

    It would be nice, if certificate based validation could be used for clients - in order to enhance the security regarding client validation towards the TSM server.Client certificates could be issued using a local PKI - and when a client connects, t...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Hierarchical fileset quotas option

    Add an option to mmcrfileset and/or mmchfileset where you can specify whether or not you want the fileset quota usage of all child filesets to "roll up" and be applied to quotas of any/all of their parent filesets. This probably makes the most sen...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Increase the number of nodes in a Storwize cluster

    Increase the number of nodes in the Storwize cluster. Users want an SVC cluster to have 16-32 nodes.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Multiple snapshot disk attached to same worker node from different namespaces which cause the "Failed Snapshot" in the backup because of the limitation in VMware end.

    Issue where snapshot getting failed on daily backup jobs runs when we have multiple PV/PVCs from different namespace attached the same worker node because of the VMware end there is limitation to handle the multiple tasks at same time. When the fi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    Support for certificates with MS Entra SSO

    The customer has requested SSO integration with MS Entra to use certificates (instead of a client secret) as a credential.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    CTDB recovery timeout improvement

    Multiple protocol nodes are stuck in wait state when pn01 is selected to be the master recovery causing loss of access of the whole cluster. However pn01 is hung and stuck due to kernel oops issue. After pn01 is rebooted and no GPFS running, pn03 ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Is Spectrum Control available for a cluster installation

    We need for Spectrum Control 5.4.6 cluster support for Windows 2019 for an cluster failover event. Currently we are using 2 SC Instances on Windows 2012 Its planned to do a server refresh and we want to know, if SC could be installed in a clustere...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

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