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High availability support for vsnap

VSNAP and VADP proxy high availability (clustering ) support. We need to extend the clustering support already available for SPP server to VADP Proxies and Vsnap servers, in combination with HW storage sharing
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add Nutanix Acropolis AHV as supported SPP Hypervisor

Please add Nutanix Acropolis AHV hypervisor to the supported Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisors.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TS4500 improve Remote Authentication (LDAP, RACF) support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor authentication is a major component of security policies in many companies. TS4500 supports remote authentication with MFA when used with Duo (authentication proxy). However, this client has already invested in an MFA infrastructure t...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Support 256 or more cluster watches per cluster.

Only 25 cluster watches are supported per cluster, but we need 256 at least.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

MDISK removal advanced features

It would be great to be able to tune rmmdisk performance, I mean, selecting all mdisks to remove from a pool and ensure a few things: 1.- Do no write extends on mdisks that have been also selected for removal, it has no sense to put workload in md...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under 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 ?
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 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...
about 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 ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SPP two-factor authentication

Due to several cyber attacks to many companies. Some SPP clients are requiring a two-factor authentication. Overall in SPP WEB UI and SPP WEB admin UI.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration