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Search results: Storage Protect Family

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Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Select Node, which using Encryption, from Server

We have system with nearly 11000 nodes and I would like to know as Server-Administrator, which nodes have encrypted data and can be affected by some changes.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TDP for Database SQL

ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Manually running cloud offload per VM

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run VM backups manually by selecting the VM and clicking the "run" button.When we want run replication or offload we need to run the schedule.We should be able run run replication or offload jobs per VM manually ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SP server output file ownership/permissions

SP can output several types of files. For example, DRM recovery plans, backing up devconfig or volhist, select command output, etc. We can already control where to direct the output, i.e., directory structure and filename. Having the ability to al...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enable a search field for select a Virtual Machines into the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments console.

Having a several vcenters, and into each Vcenter a huge among of virtual machines, it is hard to find one a VM to selected it to backup. We waste of time looking for these VMs, when we do not know which Vcenter it belong, so we need to display all...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Feature so you can have managed SP instances when using TAG based vmware backup

We have quite a few SP servers that are all managed, but now we have to stop that because when doing vmware backup to a Spectrum protect server it can not longer be managed. This is due to the fact that with 8.1.4 the vmgui admin user will update ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center Reports - Server Groups and comma separated list of servers

Operation Center custom reports should allow selecting more than one server in "Configure Report", either by comma-separated list, or by server groups.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Delete a single VM or data backup in SPP

30 Aug 2018 11:57 AM Mike, I would recommend opening an RFE and requesting this functionality. Robert[Less]30 Aug 2018 11:57 AMrobertsd (IBM) changed Status from Waiting for IBM to Awaiting your feedback.30 Aug 2018 11:49 AMMike Swartz (Customer) ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Select which management class for offload backup is used.

When making backup jobs we want to select which management class the spectrum protect for VE datamover must use for offload backups. We need the option to have different retentions requirements for long term storage on the spectrum protect server....
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration