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Fusion HCI Management Server

The Fusion HCI Rack should have a dedicated 1U Management server. This would be a low cost Linux server, single socket. The server would have the provision code as well as remote support tools. This could include remote access for IBM support, sim...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes and values.Service request number: 10814,999,846
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add DB2 support for Spectrum CDM

Add support for DB2 in addition to Intercache, Oracle, SQL and HANA databases in the Spectrum CDM product please
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

eMail encryption for Operations Center

As security requirements increase, it is our company policy to send encrypted emails with authentication. Can you please add SmartTLS with TLSv1.2 and authentication (port 587/tcp) as feature on Spectrum Protect Operations Center ?
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Satellite CoreOS images deployment

Make it possible via automation scripts in Fusion GUI to deploy also Core OS satellite Images, today only RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 is possible.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

SMB transparent failover

The current design only support NFS transparent failover and SMB is not. Without SMB transparent failover, end user need to interactive with failover session. Customer hope to support CIFS session reconnect automatically during CES FO/FB. This can...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

select to get damaged containers in OC reports

The command QUERY DAMAGED <STGPOOLNAME> type=container is nice in order to see any damaged containers, however in Operations Center Reporting it is not possible to do the same command and there is no equivalent select statement available as ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

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