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Sync Snapshot information marked for deletion or deleted from the SPS side with the FlashSystem

Currently, When we execute command "./fcmcli -f inquire_detail" the list of all the snapshots taken by the SPS is displayed. CASE 1 : In case of the parameter MAX_VERSIONS when the new snapshot is taken, automatically older snapshot version exceed...
4 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Support COHESITY SmartFiles S3 Object Lock for IBM Storage Protect Container Storage Pools

It is a major Storage Protect customer request. This customer has a project to integrate COHESITY SmartFiles and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Storage Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

LDAP - implement nested groups support

Enterprise environments that implement LDAP need to support LDAP nested groups.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Servermon (Windows) is using cmd to archive servermon files, located in <instance_dir\srvmon

To protect our ISP Server environment on Windows against Ransomware attacks, we are using the program Blocky for TSM from Grau Data. We can whitelist all programs and applications to update the critical files in the filesysems, like db, log and in...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP File restore selection and Progress

SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP: NAT connection trough dedicated vLAN

SPP server has configured NAT with additional 3 network IP's. The same vLAN's are configured in the vSNAP server + proxy combo (IBM appliance).During Backup/Restore operation SPP communicate with client with correct IP (different than managment). ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

The customer request Storage Insights to have a Safe Guarded Copy capacity planning tool similar to StorM

The customer would like to use Safe Guarded Copy but wants to understand the capacity requirements using Storage Insights
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Report or chart that shows SVC node/IOgroup balance at a glance

To better balance the workload across IOgroups, it's important to see the # of hosts, IOPS, throughput, etc. that each IOgroup is handling. Need a report that shows the IOgroup workload for all 4 IOgroups side-by-side in an SVC cluster. This helps...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Throttle option for SCSI UNMAP to backend mdisk

Request for Spectrum Virtualize software ability to control the rate of SCSI UNMAP workload sent to backend mdisks. When vdisk remove is executed on non-DRP pool, the rate of UNMAP commands to backend appear unlimited and need to have ability to c...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration