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vSnap implement HA feature - automated failover

Implement an automated failover for vSnap component:When having multiple vSnaps in one Site and one vSnap fails, the other vSnaps won't automatically stand in and pick up the backup jobs. This causes a service outage which is not acceptable. Of co...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Request for improvement that the deferred copies should start soon after demount.

Generally deferred copy is very useful to copy logical volumes to the remote clusters between long distance and to avoid longer job's elaps time than that sync or immediate copy consitency point brings on the grid configration.Today, deferred copi...
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to remove a TS7770 Feature - FC 5271

Once a customer has a Grid installation of numerous TS7700s, FC5271 is required on all new additions/changes to the grid going forward. For a customer that is no longer using (or was never using) this feature, there is no way to remove the feature...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Add support for NFS v4 on vSnap Servers to close Vulnerabilities issues caused by NFS v3

Customer is having SPP 10.1.7 and Security team runs multiple Vulnerability Scan multiple times a year and they have identified vulnerability on vSnap servers related to NFS version. Current NFS version of the vSnap file system is V3. Can we inclu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for Azure MFA and other MFA providers

Given the focus on security, it would be of real benefit if the Spectrum Suite of applications (but specifically Protect, Protect Plus, Operations Centre) could support MFA for administrator logon, in particular Azure MFA.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add Azure native VM snapshots support to SPP

As of March 2021 SPP on Azure is capable to backup some DBs on Azure, but not VMson Azure.Add support for VMs will give SPP on Azure similar functionality comparing to SPP on premise
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

List all available recipes in UI

Customer requested to be able to list all available recipes in Fusion UI and make assignments to applications in UI instead of doing from OCP Level.
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

SPP: Implement different "log options" for serviceability

SPP currently only offers one "log download" option, which always includes the vSnaps & VADP logs and a lot of SPP GUI logs.In larger envirnments with a few vSnaps & VADPs, we've seen those support packages grow to 6GB and take longer than...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to install Vintela on SPP + VSNAP servers for user access

The customer would like to have the ability to install Vintela on the SPP and VSNAP servers in their environment. This is to grant access to the team that supports SPP without having to give out the superuser or create a local account for each per...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SnapDiff API - NetAPP un-deprecated snapdiff ZAPIs in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases

Let me also give you some background information on SnapDiff APIs. Originally SnapDiff v1/v2 ZAPIs were deprecated in ONTAP 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 but were un-deprecated in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases. As long as you are on the most recent ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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