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Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enabling versioning and object lock on buckets in GUI

S3 Object Lock with COS is only supported for buckets (containers). The GUI to administer storage accounts, to generate S3 access keys and to create buckets does not allow setting of versioning and/or object lock. Those need to be enabled via an e...
3 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Storage Insights

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Storage Insights. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches in Storage Insights

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Storage Insights as not monitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Storage Insights can monitor. Add an option to supp...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Spectrum Control as unmonitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Spectrum Control can monitor. Add an option to suppre...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

resource aware scheduling in TSM

I work with TSM for 9 years and the biggest TSM's weakness I found is the scheduling. All the large environments I worked on used some external scheduling application like TWS or Control-M to be able to keep the resources under control. The proble...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 11 Not under consideration

include log backups in additional copies

In version 10.1.8 transaction log backups (e.g. for MSSQL or MS Exchange) can be replicated between vSnap servers to produce redundant copies.In the "additional copies" feature only the incremental backups of the DBs/applications are copied to the...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Expand TPI to more actions

With the new TPI feature it is not possible to delete safeguarded snapshots. We would very much like the feature expanded to include operations such as deleting regular datastores in an attempt to prevent ransomware attacks. And before you say "ju...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Encryption in flight between Global Data Platform (CNSA) PODs using NIST and FIPs compliance for remote filesystem mounts

Customer is a bank and wants secure communications between all nodes within the storage cluster which is possible but also between any clusters that remote mount and between the storage cluster and the Remote cluster. Because Storage Fusion with G...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect KMIP support for encryption

Basically requesting SP products compatibility with KMIP when using Spectrum Protect products built-in encryption capabilities.We are seeing encryption demands more and more every day and most of time customers want to have a unified encryption ke...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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