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Lanfree Backup to COS/S3/Blob Storage

Enable Lan free backup support for Multi Cloud. Allow nondedup container pool.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Run Spectrum Scale in IBM FS Cloud

Run Spectrum Scale in the IBM FS CLoud to feed a Hybrid Cloud data fabric. Help IBM to better compete VS MSoft Azure and Cloudera's Ozone.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Storage Target Selection for Comprestimator CLI and GUI

SPectrum Virtualize provides Comprestimator statistics on board the Spectrum Virtualize layer based on RACE algorithm. There e are other possible hardware / software compression targets (FS900, FS9100, ...) for which Comprestimator is available in...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

disable encryption during replication

We provide datacenter service, enterprise backup and disaster recovery services to our customers. That's why we need to backup our customers' data under the SLA we have committed.As we tested we are not satisfied about Spectrum Protect Plus's repl...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Restoring deleted data on Object Storage

We provide datacenter and data protection service over Spectrum Protect Plus to our customers.We also provide cloud service over Zadara, added Zadara as S3 compatible on Spectrum Protect Plus. Zadara has a feature that enables us to restore a dele...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Compression tool to measure performance and cache impact

Compression tool that allows assessment of performance impact, and not just disk space recovered. Also determine cache usage (enough for data compression ?)
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

improve flexibility of Spectrum Protect Plus SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms

present SPP design limitation don't well support SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms simultaneously. the association operations on folders and vm under same folder may cause VM failed to be associated with expected SLA as expected. custom...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Is a defect

VMware dissimilar recovery

Ability to select VMware side components, such as available LUNs and network interfaces, during recovery of VMs to alternate environments. This would allow VMs to be restored and function with the configuration which is dissimilar to the original
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Bulk adding tags to files via REST API without a policy

We use a SQL select query to fetch files from the Spectrum Discover metaocean table and let a script work on these files. The script produces a JSON file with the fkey of every file and a JSON dictionary with tags that we want to add. Since we're ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

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