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    After TLS certificate expires, IBM Spectrum Protect Server automatically renews the previous certificate distributed to nodes.

    IBM Spectrum Protect Server TLS certificate expires 10 years after the server instance is created. Immediately after the expiration, all client nodes are unable to connect to the server. One of my customers provides a backup service in their priva...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Plus

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus works perfectly with DB2 databases. Unfortunately for all our critical databases, which are replicated using DB2 HADR, backup and restore with Spectrum Protect Plus is currently not supported.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Support for Gen 2 Storage Nodes in Fusion HCI Gen1 Rack with FDF

    Client who invested in Gen 1 HCI Racks with C01/C05 Nodes can add more capacity for bringing new persistent workload on OCP/Fusion Cluster. This can be achieved via testing C14 Storage Nodes in Gen1 Rack with C01/C05 nodes.
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

    The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for vCloud Director

    We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

    Build a possibility to upgrade existing FCM4 arays created by <8.6.2 to the new functionality with ransomware detection

    Many customer will install on LTS versions for stability and fast coming PTFs. We will now deliver FCM4 modules with better ransomware detection possibilities. But it will not possible to use this with arrays formatted <8.6.2 , what is a CD ver...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Global Mirror RPO Alerting from DS8000

    Clients running Global Mirror replication are always concerned about the state of their replication - mainly through the RPO metric. Currently, there is no direct RPO reporting that is handled by the DS8000 system itself. For clients not using man...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 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 ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

    Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    IBM Callhome for Node Reboot

    IBM node panic Rebooted on 09/17, but no callhome generated to IBM(TS017220322) In event of Node reboots due to any bug may go unnoticed if the node comes up within 30 mins. Fidelity would like to generate a callhome to IBM and a case should open ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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