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Integrity control for stored datas on vsnap

Set up an integrity check to validate that the data that was copied to the vsnap server are valid.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multiple schedules backup per VM Tags

There is not possible to backup VMs with multiple VM Tags. The Tag category "Schedule" is in settings "One tag". Using tags is in this reason very limited.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Windows explorer Feature

This demand aims at implementing a new feature providing a windows explorer like feature Please check the attached slides for more details
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Horizontal scaling of spcetrum environement in Openshift

In order to optimize the general performance of the Discover spectrum environment implemented in Openshift, it seems important to us to consider that benefiting from the horizontal scalability capabilities in Openshift would be a must For example,...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

STA path need to update after drive replacement

As an example of TS3200 LTO6 drives which we have in our infra whenever we found any drive issue and after replacement of this drive we are getting new serial number and same we are updating on tsm server with below command upd dr libraryname driv...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Functionality already exists

Option to not automatically create mountpoints

When a Filesystem is created, GPFS makes sure, the mountpoint is created on all client nodes. We need an option to suppress this behaviour.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Container Storage Interface support of Endurance storage and Portworx storage.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Storage Interface currently do not support Endurance storage or Portworx.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Pick a backup to offload in a cloud object storage or SP as archive

Hello support, I would like to know if it is possible to pick a backup that i want to offload in a cloud object storage or SP.We can define a SLA to to it as a politic. But the goal is to do it in onetime. example:do an incremental backup every da...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Display drive FRU in drive properties

Display Drive FRU in Drive properties | hardware tab. This information should be displayed next to "name", "status" , "acknowledged"... under internal resource|properties
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release