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SPPlus : restore VM to my cloud provider

In Spectrum Protect plus , it would be interesting to have the ability to restore a VM to a cloud provider. As we can restore to alternate location today, alternate location could be then IBM Cloud or Amazon or Azure so the VM is being restored an...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Delete orphaned entries in DEDUPSTATS

In Spectrum Protect there is a requirement to use the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command to determine the deduplication performance on an individual node / filespace level. The DELETE DEDUPSTATS command is used to tidy up old entries. However, it will le...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add product_id to display on gui Pools, Internal storage

I am looking at this site: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/873170 There is nothing there to tie my drives on my FS7300 running 8.5.0.10 to anything on that site. I am trying to use the GUI. I go into Pools, Internal Storage. I even tried to...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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

Replication failures caused by decommissioned filespaces (virtual machines) are not sufficiently visible

In an environment where you have cross-replicating Spectrum Protect servers and where you decommission a virtual machine, subsequent replications (replicate node commands) will fail if there remains unreplicated data on one of the servers.Replicat...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Activity report and Security Posture Report grouped by Business

Would be good to have customizable reports on Defender to have the ability to build custom reports . The prime use case I see (customer asked for) is to be able to provide a report for a given business application which woud be composed of VMs and...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP GUI Language Option

Starting from SPP Version 10.1.4 the GUI detects the browser language to automatically choose the language for the Web GUI (for example to german). We need a way to configure the language for the Web GUI for the logged in user. This is because som...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Launch CLI from GUI

I have received multiple requests from my customers to add the ability to launch the FlashSystem CLI from the GUI like other IBM products. Please consider adding this simple change.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Add zstd as a compression option

Although the existing compression options are okay sometimes it would be nice to be have more options where speed and decent compression ratios are achievable. Zstd has been gaining traction both in the Linux area and is already on some IBM tape d...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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