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For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

GUI accounts that are restricted to specific filesystems/filesets

The ability to create GUI/Management API accounts that are restricted to one of more filesystems/filesets in the cluster.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Add TDP for Oracle to Retention Sets type of data that can be included

Currently, retention sets allow TDP for SQL, B/A Client, TDP for Mail, DP for VE (both VMware and Hyper-V) but only TDP for DB - Oracle is NOT supported and this is reallly needed for long term retention - there's a class of backups that is comple...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Storage Agent write to cloud container

Would be very useful to allow a storage agent to write directly to an on-prem or off-site cloud bucket. In larger environment this would help spread the load and improve backup performance. Then allow the Storage agent to read from on-prem S3 and ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Single pane of glass for FlashSystem management

Many A9000/R (even still XIV) customers are migrating to Spectrum Virtualize. EVERY one of my customers that has done that asks for the equivalent of HyperScale Manager for FlashSystems. It is a huge whole in the management process of FlashSystems...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

vSphere Web Client Integration

VMware admins and operations work in vSphere Web Client. Customer need to be able to perform the backup/recovery duties from vSphere Web Client.SPP need an extention like DP for VMware provides.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Deleting specific restore points for vms and applications

Release 10.1.7 allows to delete restore points for vm and application backups on a backup job level (for specific job sessions or for all backup jobs of a certail sla policy).More granular restore point deletion options are needed (e.g. delete spe...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP VM Backup report shape

VM backup report : all VMmane and details need to be on 1 line only to be usable for further use of selecting and data filtering. I attached VM_Backup_new_look_proposal.xls file which illustrate how we wish to have it. All build-in reports should ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

CUIR (Control Unit Initiated Recovery) for DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DASD<-->Z works fineControl Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for Tape<-->Z works fineCUIR works fine with Microcode-Updates and hardware-maintenance Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DA...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

IBM SVC Port Intelligence

One of the IBM SVC port had errors (numbers loss of frames, buffer credits, link loss event). This caused one of the disk on windows server 2016 to go offline. THe request is to built an intelligence in SVC product itself to disable the port if th...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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