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avoid external ssh access to spp container pods for ISP Plus kubernetes backup

In release 10.1.6 of ISP Plus ssh access to the spp agent container pods is needed from outside the k8s cluster (ISPP Server needs this access).There are security concerns at a customer site due to this requirement.SPP server to spp agent pod comm...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Need a way to move clients between vsnap servers to load balance use of vsnaps

Customer would like the ability to move clients from one vsnap to another to help balance the use of the vsnap servers in their environment.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Better performance/parallelism on generate dedupstats

It will be usefull to be able to use "generate dedupstats" to generate daily usage information for nodes/nodegroups on a multitenant setup.Unfortunately, the performance of the current "generate dedupstats" makes it impossible for us to generate t...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Assignments panel needs to enhanced to display the ip address or WWN or switch name or at least the system UUID

We also are unable to use Assignments to spread the workload because all the switches are listed with their Chassis Name, and we have a lot of switches of the same kind so its impossible to differentiate between which device is located where. Woul...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Possibility to create a synthetic backup full in SPP with OSSM and vSnap at any time

For SLA reasons (law or company regulations) it is necessary that my BASE backup is NEVER older than 30 days!
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

temp. autologout customization in the SPP GUI

When pulling support logs in larger environments, the default autologout in the spp gui of currently 30min is exceeded. however, the time to create the log collection is much longer than 30min. this prevents the forwarding to support cases. a way ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) support for RSA SecurID

Many large, heavily regulated enterprises require multifactor authentication (MFA) on mission critical technology assets. One of the most popular on-prem MFA solutions is RSA SercurID. RSA is supported on the IBM enterprise DS8k storage product, i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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

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