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Ability to replicate storage fusion backup and restore service protection

When we backup the service protection to an s3 compliant backup location, the service protection cannot be replicated to another s3 compliant backup location say at a DR site. It would be ideal if we can replication the service protection backup t...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Storage Scale - Need GPFS to support storing or exporting performance data into enterprise-level time series database like InfluxDB or Prometheus

Problem: 1. The "pmcollector" service usually cannot work well when the GPFS cluster has over 100 nodes. As a result, the GUI will not display the performance data normally. And restarting the GUI will not help.2. ZIMON can not process large amoun...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP: Progress bar for Replication & Archive

Currently ISPP only shows a working progress bar for Backups. For Jobs like Replication and Cloud Offload the bar stays at 0% until the end and then jumps to 100%.This is a problem when monitoring tasks and trying to get a rough estimate how long ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus supporting SAP HANA

Spectrum Protect Plus supporting backup and recovery of SAP HANA.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Adding file system management to Flashsystem

Currently we have ceded the unified market to Pure, Netapp, and others and to help a client with file data requires a bolt on solution. We should either acquire Racktop's Brickstor and offer it as a add on for any Flashsystem as their product mesh...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Accuracy in SDP configs to allow for better list pricing

Currently the customer facing page leave a lot to be desired and to get a better idea of pricing requires additional work and calls and can take 1 to several weeks. Improving this and giving the client an idea of what kind of discounts are availab...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Update vSnaps over SPP GUI / Dashboard

We would like to be able to update one or more vSnaps through the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI / Dashboard.Currently we have to update the vSnaps manually via the cli on the vSnap server itself.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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