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Defender Data Protect/Replica

    Superuser account into ROBO environments for update purposes

    We are currently running v7.1.2_u3 on most of our Defender infra and are currently deploying 7.3.x. We quickly ran into an issue in our ROBO deployments, where our original instances were (are) running on a 81GB OS disk and the new image needs to ...
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Better handling of Cohesity agent certificates

    Remove unnecessary alerts.
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Make Pulse Log more easily avaiable

    Currently the "Pulse Log" - the log of messages associated with a protection or recovery job - is only available via the GUI and apparently cannot be directly downloaded without copying the contents using cut and paste. Adding a download button wo...
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Enhance security tied to DataPlatform for Cloud Azure deployment

    Currently, as a part of the Cohesity Data Protect DataPlatform for Cloud Azure deployment workflow, DMS uses the input Azure subscription information to deploy cluster resources. As a part of the deployment, a temporary Azure storage account is cr...
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Enable Web Proxy for DMS agent communication to IBM Cloud

    Build in a option to configure the use of a web proxy to enable the DMS agent for Storage Protect to communicate with the IBM Cloud for Storage Protect servers that do not/cannot have direct access to the internet and require a web proxy for inter...
    over 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information

    Data Protect as part of IBM Storage Defender and improvement for cluster-failover

    Assume there are two Data Protect Clusters in metro-distance (<30km). Both clusters are loosely coupled only. Just backup data itself are mirrored asynchronously, but no meta-data. What are the issues with that? As a consequence, in case of a f...
    over 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Add ability in Data Management Service to perform most common Storage Protect actions

    Monitoring of Storage Protect is very basic in the current release. The product shows how many alerts on the Storage Protect server but not what they are. Operations Center is still 100% necessary for Storage Protect management. Would like to allo...
    over 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    Please add ability to select individual VMDKs for inclusion, excluding all unselected VMDKs

    When configuring a Protection Group with a standardized configuration of the OS partition being on HDISK1, it is easier to select that one VMDK for inclusion rather than have to exclude all other VMDKs. Over time, VM configurations may change and ...
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Implementing purging algorithms

    Protection > Recoveries view will not be purged, only some detail information for recovery tasks older than a month.
    11 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    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
    over 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

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