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Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via OC

Allow the creation of Monthly reports via Operations Center
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Adding Enhancment on Measurement Monitoring on level of Fileset quota

Because in our company GPFS structure based on three or four filesystem like /production & /test and we created million of fileset based on project name but unfortunately some of these filesets reach maximum quota 100% and application down bec...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

SPP Container backup support unsupported storage class exclusion

We wish to have a better exclusion feature for currently unsupported storage classes.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow more than one NTP server in Spectrum Virtualize Products

Most products that require time synchronization allow more than one NTP server to be specified. Spectrum Virtualize products only allow one server and that only via the IP address. Here, IBM has to make improvements and allow more than one server....
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

Add the ability to track licensing of SCU and TiB in Storage Insights

With the move to adopt SI and eliminate the need for an on-prem Spectrum Control instance, one area that we cannot track in SI is Licensing. Today in Control we can list out all 4 tiers and usage of SCU and TiB. This report is useful for yearly su...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus native application-aware snapshot/recovery support of Google Cloud Platform VMs

Support for SPP to snapshot/recover Google Cloud VMs via API (like VMware VM support). Need capability of installing both the SPP server and vSnap in GCP.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
9 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration