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Bastion/DHCP/DNS server option for Fusion HCI

I believe that the servers required for Fusion HCI installation should be offered as option of Fusion HCI. When building Fusion HCI environment, external server is requried for: - DNS/DHCP server - bastion server for application installation - mge...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

Increase number of SVC Partnerships

Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

TS77 should write SMF as DS8* systems do

Hi, as everybody else who uses TS7700, we also use BVIR (available within Tape Tools). BVIR makes it possible to get the reports about TS7700 performance, usage, virtual volumes, physical volumes, etc.. Unfortunately, right now we don’t really ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Planned for future release

vsnap storage migration from EOS/EOL Backend storage to new storage on same vsnap

We have no approved solution to migrate the attached LUNs on a vsnap server to new LUNs on same vsnap server. We need that if backend storage is going EOL/EOS. Currently there is only one solution and this is to create new vsnap server with new LU...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Instant VMDK Restore with Overwrite Capabilities

German customer would like the option of restoring VMDK over top of the exisiting original VMDK. The restore today only mounts the VMDK in parallel when recovered back to the original. Competitor VMware VDP for which SPP replaced was able to do a ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Increase (virtual) DS8000 capacity limits

(virtual) DS8000 capacity is limited to 3652 TiB (approx. 4 PB) with thin provisioning and Small Extents (Thin provisioning and Small Extents is recommended by IBM) 2019 (with) DS8880 we were hit by this limitation. We used some overprovisioning (...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Ansible modules for DS8000

Provide an ansible collection with modules to perform the equivalent of DSCLI using playbooks. ** Note the RFE webpage forced me to choose an operating system and z/OS was the only choice. This is not a z/OS operating system request
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Change SPP requirements for WinRM for AllowUnencrypt due to security issues

Currently ISPP requirements for Windows (SQL/Exchange/Windows File Indexing) say to set AllowUnencrypted to true :winrm s winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}and"Both servers must have a Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service that is...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Planned for future release

Re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap

SPP doesn't support re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap in the event of primary vSnap pool corruption/data loss. A full baseline backup is initiated if backups pointed to secondary or to a new built primary vSnap.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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