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    Support External Ceph on Fusion HCI as the only storagesystem

    For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is the right fit (particularly for OpenShift Virtualization), support configuring External Ceph on Fusion HCI with no other storage defined (no GDP and FDF installed b...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    RegionalDR support for External Ceph

    For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is a good fit, rbd-mirror needs to support StorageClass ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd rather than the usual internal StorageClass ocs-storagecluster-ceph-rbd.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    SPP: Enable filesystem & DB Backup at the same time

    When looking in the System requirements for SPP, the following restriction is mentioned: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6421231 Only one application server or file server can be assigned per host. For example, if a host is registered as a ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    SI "New Experience": add option to export graphs on storage system overview dashboard

    customer would like to export a daily graph of the top 10 vols data rate, of the last 24h
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Enable mmbackup to Work on Dependent Filesets

    Currently, mmbackup does not support running directly on dependent filesets. This limitation creates operational challenges in environments where independepdent fileset reach upto max limit (3000) . Customers cannot prevent dependent filesets grow...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect Snapshot sould support IBM FlashSystem MuliSite Hyperswap (MSHA / PBHA)

    In Sep 2023 with Storage Virtualize Version 8.6.1 new functions was release for FlashSystem/SVC called MuliSite Hyperswap, also named as Policy-based High Availability. We need SPS to support this.
    almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    Add TS7700 stats to the IBM Storage Insights GUI Panels

    Add TS7700 stats to the IBM Storage Insights GUI Panels
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    MFA for CSM users

    In the context of compliance to DORA/NIS2/... regulations I would be great to see CSM users authentication supported by MFA/2FA (like TOTP, with Duo Security, Microsoft Authenticator, IBM Verify,...).
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    SCDM GUI extension request (update of group marked jobs)

    It is not possible to set grouped BACKUP jobs as "Hold Schedule" and "Unhold Schedule". Same for grouped selections for Delete request.It is only possible to do this sequentially according to the selected individual jobs, which is incredibly time ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Official support for the Workaround of disabled EFS (Encrypted File System) for Exchange DAG restore operations is needed

    In our environment, activating the EFS is not allowed. If EFS is not enabled, the restore of Exchange DAG databases does not work. IBM has provided us with a workaround where a JSON file (SPAgent_cfg.json) is placed in the directory "C:\Program Fi...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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