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"Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

consolidated ticket overview

In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

Provide a UUID for each object that is replicated across multiple clusters (e.g. in PBHA / PBR / Flashgrid Configurations)

Objects such as volume groups or hosts that are being replicated in a PBR/PBHA config exist as individual objects with local IDs on each FlashSystem Cluster, although they actually are considered as unique objects in a cluster-overarching context....
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Support for RHEL 9

Now when SPP is not going to be future develop and we need to run a VMware Backups using Dark Site software we falling back to IBM Storage Protect for VMware and we have test it on a RedHat Enterprise Server 9.2 and it works fine accept the servic...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Support for native velero v1.14 backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

Currently Velero v1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] and IBM are currently not supporting this. To support this code changes to storage protect object agent side are needed.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

TS7700 - Setup of the timezone (to send RSyslog records with the same time as the receiving system)

TS7700 and TSSC do support the setup of an RSyslog Client and externalize the log collection. However, it is not possible to define a local timezone on either TS7700 or TSSC. This results in a mixture of log entries in the receiving Syslog Server ...
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review