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    Defender Data Protect (DDP) Configuration Backup

    Why is it useful? A DDP configuration backup is essential for quick recovery and business continuity in isolated environments without a remote cluster. Without it, a DDP server failure means manual re-configuration and re-onboarding, leading to si...
    about 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information

    SPP - Support Incremental Backup of Exchange DBs on ReFS

    Customer has recently replaced Commvault with IBM SPP. Only Full Exchange backups are working as the customer is using ReFS.Also, since SPP is using VSS of the Exchange Server, backup of the 2nd Exchange DB cannot be started unless the backup of f...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Snapshot and VG Snapshot Transparency to Expert Admins

    Currently the VG snapshots and vDisk snapshots are intransparent on the UI and cmd for expert administrators. Snapshot Disk are hidden and can only made visible with certain commands on the cmd but not on the UI. Which Snapshot rely on which other...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    SPP - Datastore Utilisation Check

    Please can SPP have a setting to check the utilisation % of a datastore prior to backing up to ensure that the snapshot being taken does not risk the datastore running out of space.This can then be checked by SPP prior to each VM being backed up, ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

    Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Provide progress reporting for inode scan activities associated with disk recovery operations.

    Problem Statement In large IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) environments, disk recovery operations can take a significant amount of time to complete. For example, our environment contains over 90 PB of data and billions of files across the cluster. Follow...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    DS8A hardware support for a 3-way Copy relation

    Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Continue CIM support

    Applications like ServiceNow rely on CIM to retrieve data during discovery.Without CIM support (since version 8.6.1 and newer), new integrations (e.g. REST based) are required but not available.IBM already has/had the knowledge to provide a good C...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

    We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

    SPP Migrate Offloaded Data between different Cloud Providers

    Spectrum Protect Plus should provide a functionality to migrate offloaded backups between cloud providers.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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