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Spectrum Protect (Server)

We would like IBM to provide an official support statement and a detailed compatibility matrix for IBM Storage Protect Server 8.2.x when performing NDMP backup and restore operations against Dell EMC PowerScale (formerly Isilon) storage systems.

We would like IBM to provide an official support statement and a detailed compatibility matrix for IBM Storage Protect Server 8.2.x when performing NDMP backup and restore operations against Dell EMC PowerScale (formerly Isilon) storage systems. S...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Storage pool option migration by age required

Because of the way the SP server is selecting data eligible for migration, new data may be migrated out from DISK to FILE or from FILE to 3592, while old data remains on DISK/ FILE forever. We found data in a FILE storage pool which was more than ...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Replication to Dissimilar Domain by Using of Configuration Management

By setting of DISSIMILARPOLICIES to ON it is possible to set different policies on source and target site of replication.But this dissimilarity is however referenced to the domain of source site.Actually if your node on the target site belongs to ...
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Introduce new function to use native cloud bucket copy or replication function during our replication from cloud container storage

Doing replication from cloud container storage is very challenge , slow and can cost $$. now more and more our users move data into cloud object storage, they also use our replication to replicate data to target server. this replication from cloud...
17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Support creating Copy-Container pools to VTL instead of physical tape only

Customers do have VTL instead of physical tape in use, VTL is used as disaster recovery media. Customer plans to ingest Object Data (IBM Fusion) via S3 Object Agent to a Disk Container Storage Pool. Protection of a Disk Container Storage Pool is p...
19 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted
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Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

SESSION REFUSED - CLIENT IS DOWN-LEVEL WHEN SESSIONINITIATION SERVERONLY IS USED

Hello support team! I hope you are well! I raise this PMR because it seems we are hitting - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT25298 - IT25298: ANR0428W SESSION REFUSED - CLIENT IS DOWN-LEVEL WHEN SESSIONINITIATION SERVERONLY IS USED. Short ...
29 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

FS5600 Snapshot Approach for Spectrum Protect

To have the spectrum protect server db2 protect from crash recovery or cyber attack in faster way
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Storage Protect server to run on Alma and Rocky

Some public customers need cost effective solutions. Especially option to run application on open source platforms like Alma and Rocky.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

SP server receiving STA messages should write STA messages out to filetextexit

This idea is related to idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPF-I-3471 requesting that the Storage Protect storage agent should report all its messages to the Storage Protect server it is connecting to. The Storage Protect server receiving the messag...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

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