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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 7, 2022

Automatic Safegurded volumes to s3 or COS

With safeguarded copy, we have a fantastic solution to provide an immutable copy of a volume. Rapid recovery is effective if the volume resides on the storage array, however, with ransoware taking 200+ days to detect, it is less likely this volume will be on the array.
on-prem or cloud object stores, such as IBM COS, AWS S3 and Azure Blob enable immutable copies to be stored and recovered, so having the Flashsystem managing the safeguarded copy all the way through to the Object tier makes perfect sense.
This could also be an extension to easytier as a long-term lower cost tier similar to what is available on Spectrum Scale.
I think this would also improve our hybrid cloud message.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Dec 9, 2024

    This is a requirement for my customer. They are thinking of saving copies in a IBM COS/Ceph on premises solution for these SGC.

  • Guest
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    Nov 6, 2024

    TCT target to "any" compatible S3 object store would be a very nice addition to this feature.

  • Admin
    Philip Clark
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    Mar 22, 2022

    Thank you for submitting this enhancement request. We have reviewed this request and believe it is a good candidate for Spectrum Virtualize.



    Thanks,

    SpecV Team


    philipclark@ibm.com


  • Guest
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    Mar 15, 2022

    I think, it is IBM Spectrum Protect.

  • Guest
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    Feb 12, 2022

    To previous commenter Maik: can you clarify what you mean by ISP target?

  • Guest
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    Feb 8, 2022

    A good request, I like to add that ISP could also be a target over its soon improved S3 (object client) capability to have a copy on tape.

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Using Ceph as S3/Object TCT target for FlashSystem

Merged
Ceph as TCT target for FlashSystem- right now, we're supporting only public cloud targets. With this requested support, we could do "air-gap" type of snapshots (maybe integrate it in Defender later on), utilize the use of Ceph as backend. Create g...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration