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Storage Protect Family

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SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.13 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

New client/API interface

Make a new client interface for data communication on SP-server. Which can support new functionality and to which ALL new clients will use. Clients can then have: * Auto upgrade clients, option in server and node* Better agent, functionality* And ...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Support for RHEL9 for Storage Protect Server

RHEL 8 is more than 5 years old. RHEL 9 was already released more than 2 years ago (was officially released on May 17, 2022), It would be a good idea to add it as Operating System for Storage Protect Server.
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support for HCL Domino Server 14

HCL Domino Server 14 has been available for some time now. The Storage Protect Agent for Mail/Domino does not yet support this version. Since we and various other customers are due to update their HCL Domino servers to version 14, I would like to ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release