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IBM Storage Defender Data Protect support for Oracle oVirt

Oracle oVirt (bought by Oracle from Red Hat). Per the documentation, oVirt (Red Hat) was supported until version 6.1.8. Now oVirt is part of the new Oracle, but not yet officially supported by Data Protect.
20 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Add basic Hardware Monitoring to Storage Insight for b-type SAN Switches

I would like to see the feature implemented into the Cloud Version of Storage Insights. We have added all our Storage, SVCs and SAN Switches to have a single pane of glass for our storage networking. We believed that hardware error events would sh...
21 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository. I think it will be a good idea to create a repository and manually upload the deployment packages.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Submitted

Support for Tanzu TKGi

Some bigger customers are heavily invested in Tanzu, this includes Tanzu TKGi. Right now we don't support this with Defender Data Protect.
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
7 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Eliminate divisive language from your products

We're almost 1/4th of the way into the 21st century ... no IBM product should use terms like master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, etc.
5 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Submitted

Storage Protect Storage Agent should report all issue to the Storage Protect server activitiy log

We run into a LANfree backup issue. Diagnosing the issue took a long time because the STA was not reporting the drive failures into the SP server activity log. Environment: SP AIX library manager (LM) server 8.1.21.0, SP server name LIBMGR. SP AIX...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Submitted

Support simultanious integration of Storage Scale cluster to Windows AD Domain while Linux servers are joined to an IDM domain

Protocol nodes can authorize user file access through Windows Active Directory by joining a Storage Scale cluster to a Windows Active Directory Domain. Unfortunately, IBM does not support such a connection if Storage Scale Linux servers are alread...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Support for Object Lock on IBM Ceph as an object target for Commvault

Testing required for object lock with Commvault using Ceph as the object target. Customer requirement for capacity of approx 2.6PB Ceph system with support for immutability.
7 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 2 Submitted

allow to update the Defender Connection Manager with a HTTPS certificate signed by client CA, 2 tier PKI, certificates must include correct CN and SAN with FQDN

Related product: IBM Defender Connection Manager Idea: Establish a process in the Connection Manager GUI or on cmd line (similar to the backup / restore script) to create a new CSR = Certificate Signing Request and install a client provided certif...
6 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

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