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add SVC log message when volume mirror copies run out-of-sync

Please add an informational log message to SVC when volume copies 0 and 1 get out-of-sync. Despite the two policies that can be set with the 'mirrorwritepriority' option it would be very helpful to notice problems in the back-end when volume copie...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

ISPP - reduce required free space in VG for DB2 backup

Currently when protecting db2 with ISPP you need to have 20% free space in the VG containing the DB2 database to accommodate the LV snapshots taken during ISPP DB2 backup. This additional storage requirement increases backup costs which can add up...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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...
10 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

CNSA / Rest API - Restrict GUI User access to a single Filesystem

Today, each CNSA Instance requires two GUI Users with the Access Roles of ContainerOperator and CsiAdmin. These GUI Roles have permissions to connect and manage all existing Filesystems on the Remote Scale Cluster. Fthat means: an Openshift Admin ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Document required "sudo" permissions

The requirement for a single file recovery within Spectrum Protect Plus is to implement a sudo-configuration on each protected VM to assign:sppagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Adding file system management to Flashsystem

Currently we have ceded the unified market to Pure, Netapp, and others and to help a client with file data requires a bolt on solution. We should either acquire Racktop's Brickstor and offer it as a add on for any Flashsystem as their product mesh...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Accuracy in SDP configs to allow for better list pricing

Currently the customer facing page leave a lot to be desired and to get a better idea of pricing requires additional work and calls and can take 1 to several weeks. Improving this and giving the client an idea of what kind of discounts are availab...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Support of 3 active replication relationship in DS8000

To maintain 2 synchronous relationship on 4-copy at 2-site will require support of 3 active relationship to achieve a symmetric model to provide extra resilience in both cases of storage system failure and site failure.
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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