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Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS)

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    Allowed DRS sources vs remote locations (ROBO)

    We currently have 2 onprem clusters for DP configured within DRS. We have those 2 discovered and scanning/reporting within DRS. We also added multiple Vcenter connections to DRS, which manages our clusters onprem as well as remote sites where ROBO...
    16 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Submitted

    Provide a way to acknowledge backup status of "Without backups" instead of using the Exclude button, which relates more to the Recovery Group feature.

    With DRS scanning our environments, it discovers VMs that are "Without Backups". Some are indeed to look at, but many are VMs that do not require backups. Test machines, lab servers, POC VMs etc. It would be nice to have a way to acknowledge this ...
    16 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    Provide, expose and document an external REST API for IBM Storage Defender DRS

    The lack of a published REST API in DRS makes it very difficult to integrate DRS with external processes and reporting tools. A REST API should be made available to allow customers to integrate reporting and automation tools with DRS to perform ta...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    Support Cohesity Data Protect as a backup source in DRS

    DRS currently support Defender Data Protect as a backup source in DRS and it should also support Cohesity Data Protect to broaden the scope of the solution.
    about 1 month ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Planned for future release

    Proxmox VE - Backup with Storage Defender Data Protect

    Allow Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox Virtual Environment without the need for an agent. This integration is requested by customers and included in RFPs to ensure the capability of performing VM-consistent backups and fa...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

    The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 3 Planned for future release

    Offline/manual install of Defeder Sensors in VMs

    Defender Sensors are currently only installable from the DRS UI. Installation/upgrade from DRS require network connectivity and FW openings from the on-premises Connection Manager(s) directly or through a Defender Sensor Control node to the VM(s) ...
    5 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    Defender data Protect KVM Support

    Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Sentinel Integration into Defender

    IBM Storage Sentinel must be functionally integrated with IBM Storage Defender, specifically with the Data Resiliency Service (DRS). This integration should allow Sentinel's ransomware detection results to be consumed directly by DRS, enabling aut...
    9 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Dark site - Airgapped installation of S. Defender

    There are multiple situations where SaaS deployment cannot be done per security restrictions. We need an option to have S.Defender control plane deployed onprem as not always cloud deployment is possible
    over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

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