Our Customers Have Made These Suggestions for Improving Catalogic DPX.
Enter your DPX ideas or feature requests here and vote for suggestions that other users have made.
Please be sure to add the reason why you need the feature and if you can add an example of why you need, it all the better.
This area is specifically for Catalogic DPX.
vStor Informations on DPX Dashboard
I would like to see the Availability, Disk Use, Throughput, Access / Generate Log Files
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Throughput Gauge/Counter traffic
Realtime/Overall Network throughput statistics for Network (rx/tx) traffic (DPX/VStor) in new Gui Dashboard 24h/7d
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.
Support for agentless VM backups for Nutanix AHV
Provide support AHV Hypervisor(Acropolis) from Nutanix
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
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 ...
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 ...
Active Directory item Recovery
Possibility to browse and restore (single or groups) Active Directory Objects and Items.
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.
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 ?
Protect vStor replication snapshots against ransomware.
As a user I would like to protect a vStor replication snapshot/relationship from being removed automatically when the snapshot expires so that the data in the ...
File level backup to Cloud ( AWS S3 API)
I would like to do file level backup to cloud (To Amazon)
Add threshold to Differential jobs
Add threshold to Differential jobs, so that when a configurable limit has been reached it automatically triggers a Base backup. This could remove the need to ...
BTRFS file system support (DPM-69)
SLES 12 Sp4 and beyond has BTRFS as the default file system for installation, in order to support SLES fully can you please add BTRFS support
DPX monitoring plugin for heck_mk or icinga
As a user I would to have a Monitoring Plugin for check_mk or icinga that I can monitor the DPX appliance.
Items for monitoring
-Large changes in backup size ...
Different retention times in replicated DPX snapshots
As a DPX admin I would to have the ability set a different retention time for DPX snapshots on a replicated vStor , so that if a primary snapshot expires I may still ...
DPX - File Backup: possibility to change the order of items to backup
I would like to have the possibility to change the order of items to backup when doing a file backup. At the moment it is backing up data in alphabetical order, the ...
MS SQL Server item Recovery
Browse and Restore Single SQL Items and Databases
Enhancement DPX vCenter Plugin (as vSphere tags if backup done etc.)
If a VM was backed up with a DPX-vCenterPlugin SLA this should be visible as a tag in VMware