User Suggestions

Move vStor Volume from one pool to another

On a single vStor Server to allow a volume to be moved from one pool to another pool, balancing or migrating between pools (Like vol move on netapp system between ...

Suggested by: Christopher Matthews (12 Feb, '20) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 1

Under consideration Not committed vStor

13 votes

vStor Informations on DPX Dashboard

I would like to see the Availability, Disk Use, Throughput, Access / Generate Log Files

Suggested by: Timo Fischer (23 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 1

Planned Not committed vStor

11 votes

Remote seeding Windows and Linux servers to VStor for block backup.

As a user I would like to backup my servers in a remote location to my central office, however these servers are quite large and therefore a base backup takes a very ...

Suggested by: Moderator (23 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 22 Sep, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Not committed vStor

7 votes

Agentless HyperV Support(DPM-8)

Add HyperV support for feature parity to VMWare

Suggested by: Moderator (11 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 02 Feb, '21 • Comments: 3

Done DPX 4.7

7 votes

Update Tape Library inventory automatically

As a user I would like have DPX automatically re-inventory my tape library when the door is opened and closed or when the tape lirbary module of DPX is restarted to ...

Suggested by: Moderator (22 May, '20) • Upvoted: 23 Mar, '22 • Comments: 2

Under consideration Not committed

7 votes

DPX Scheduler should allow for a maintenance window

The DPX scheduler should allow for a maintenance window to allow for SQL , exhange or windows updates etc In this window any jobs running are held or cancelled and ...

Suggested by: Anonymous (21 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 22 Jun, '22 • Comments: 2

Not planned Not committed

6 votes

Office 365 backup and restore

As a user of DPX I would like to protect my data in Office 365 and Exchange online. The reason for the protection requirement is that after 30 days the data is ...

Suggested by: Moderator (11 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 30 Mar, '21 • Comments: 2

Planned Cloud Workloads

6 votes

Prevent file backup from starting if job already running

If a Differential job starts, it should check for any current jobs running from the same Job definition and cancel itself. Example: a Base job runs overtime and a ...

Suggested by: Paul Clement (12 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 05 Aug, '21 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Not committed

6 votes

Agentless VMWare restore list of nodes instead of ESX Host list

If you try to restore a VM with instant VM or instant vmdk restore, you have to search the appropriate node in the list of ESX Hosts. It would be much better if there ...

Suggested by: Udo Dämgen (11 Feb, '20) • Upvoted: 22 Sep, '21 • Comments: 1

Done New_UI

6 votes

Throughput Gauge/Counter traffic

Realtime/Overall Network throughput statistics for Network (rx/tx) traffic (DPX/VStor) in new Gui Dashboard 24h/7d

Suggested by: Timo Fischer (16 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 05 Feb, '21 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Not committed UI Improvement vStor

5 votes

Support for agentless VM backups for Nutanix AHV

Provide support AHV Hypervisor(Acropolis) from Nutanix

Suggested by: Marc Lehmberg (19 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 01 Mar, '22 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Not committed

5 votes

BMR and virtualize from archive tapes or diskdirectory

As a user I would like to be able to recover a server using full virtualization or BMR from Tape snapshots in case my primary backups have been corrupted.

Suggested by: Marc Lehmberg (27 May, '20) • Upvoted: 23 Mar, '22 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Not committed

5 votes

automated Sandboxing for DPX restores

Having a function to sandbox a backup and have it tested automatically for application function and virus infections

Suggested by: Christof (02 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 23 Mar, '22 • Comments: 1

Not planned ransomware_protection

5 votes

DPX Jobs should be able to run in dependency in order to make optimal of the backup window

Jobs should be able to run in dependency in order to make optimal use of the time slots. Currently it can happen that a job of a VM is finished and then nothing ...

Suggested by: Anonymous (21 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 15 Feb, '21 • Comments: 1

Not planned

5 votes

Add the ability to deploy a hotfix modules for multiple clients easily.(DPM-183)

As a user I would like to be able to deploy a single hotfix file or files to multiple clients easily as copying a file to multiple machines can be very cumbersome.

Suggested by: Moderator (11 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 1

Under consideration

5 votes

vStor Snapshotlist is confused

In the snapshotlist there you can see only five entries per page! And it is not possible to filter them neither to search there for a node! This is absolutly sensless!

Suggested by: Udo Dämgen (29 Oct, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Under consideration

5 votes

Bulk change feature

This would be a nice feature for changing settings at more than one client at the same time. For example: change notifications, proxy, file history handling,.......

Suggested by: udo dämgen (25 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Under consideration

5 votes

DPX Web GUI Dashboard Top failed backups

It would be interesting to see a chart with servers with the most fault backups in the last 24h/week like the existing TOP DATA TRANSFERRED BY SERVER

Suggested by: udo dämgen (25 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Not committed UI Improvement

5 votes

Ability to flag certain job definitions as business critical.

As I user, I would like to able to set certain job definitions as critical so that these take priority over other jobs and also always display on the top in the job ...

Suggested by: Marc Lehmberg (02 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Not planned Not committed

5 votes

Enhanced E-Mail Notifications

Currently job notifications sent via SMTP are very verbose like a job log and shown as continuous text. The text needs to be formatted to include line breaks. ...

Suggested by: William Bush (23 Apr, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Not planned Not committed

5 votes

Add a monthly report for total TB backed up in one month

I would like to see a report that shows the total TB protected in one month, with total jobs, total failures, and total successes.

Suggested by: Moderator (21 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Under consideration

5 votes

Sending Logfiles directly from GUI

Send Logfiles directly from GUI using content Menu or Right Klick on Job. Dialog Add to Case ID or create new.

Suggested by: Timo Fischer (23 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 23 Mar, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration

4 votes

Dependencies and evenly distribution of backupjobs

Sometimes it is neccessary that job1 has finished before job 2 starts. Or sometimes there are running 10 jobs at the same time and then there is running no job for at ...

Suggested by: udo dämgen (09 Jul, '20) • Upvoted: 17 Aug, '20 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Not committed

4 votes

Active Directory item Recovery

Possibility to browse and restore (single or groups) Active Directory Objects and Items.

Suggested by: Timo Fischer (10 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 15 Feb, '21 • Comments: 1

Not planned Not committed

4 votes

Archiv to Tape bulk job

With ndmp tape backup I have the possibility to backup a few servers latest snapjob for agent based backups. This is missing in the archive to media wizard. In a ...

Suggested by: Udo Dämgen (11 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 05 Mar, '21 • Comments: 0

Under consideration

4 votes

Archive to media naming convention is incomprehensible.

If you are using archive to media it is absolutly to much effort to understand the naming convention and find the appropriate tape to a job. In the Library you can ...

Suggested by: Udo Dämgen (05 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Under consideration

4 votes

Priority settings between backup and restore

In most cases restores are more urgent than backups! So it would be a nice feature if I am able to fasten up a restore and slow down running backups.

Suggested by: udo dämgen (02 Jul, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Not planned Not committed

4 votes

DPX restore VM (iV or full) with exact same vmdk name as the original

When restoring a virtual machine would it be possible to honor the original VMDK names that its easy to know what VDML belongs to which VM ?

Suggested by: Moderator (18 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 22 Jul, '20 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Not committed

4 votes

Size up DPX Web GUI "Schedule Overview" window to full size

Why is the schedule overview window limited to half size. So you can see only 12 jobs without scrolling the window. The rest of the screen is unused and only grey. ...

Suggested by: udo dämgen (10 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Under consideration

4 votes

SAP Hana database protection using DPX(DPM-42)

As a user I would like to be able to protect and recover SAP HANA 2.0 Databases with DPX file/block level technology. At one point we supported SAP S3, but never ...

Suggested by: Moderator (11 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 30 Apr, '20 • Comments: 0

Done DPX 4.6.1

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