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Storage Protect Family

add support for Microsoft Exchange "Subscription Edition" ASAP

Microsoft is terminating support of all other Exchange versions and forces all customers to migrate to "Exchange SE" until end of October 2025. So SP for Mail needs to add official support for this Exchange version ASAP. Should not be difficult as...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

SnapDiff-Support for up-to-date ONTAP versions

Could you please add Snapdiff support for up2date ONTAP versions? BA-Client 8.1.27 is supported until ONTAP version 9.14. We need support vor ONTAP 9.16. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613

TDP support for Exchange SE

Latest Version TDP 8.1.21 only supports up to Exchange 2016/2019, which is going end-of-life 14. Oct 2025.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

Improvement of Automatical Certificate Distribution

It is possible to distribute a new certificate with help of cert_distribute.sh script.This script has 3 "actions" distribute, report and cleanup."distribute" make automatical distribution of new ceritificate in the form of 4 schedules for each dom...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

SP DP for SQL on windows server 2025

Having customers already installing server 2025, and are in need of a working DP from SP.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases Delivered

GCP Object Lock support

Backups immutability feature by using google cloud object locking. Add GCP to a large list of already compatible object storage sources: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-object-storage-support
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

Support for snapshot based Hyper-V backup on Windows 2025

Planning of upgrade to Hyper-V on Windows 2025 needs support to protect the data via snapshots.

Support for Ubuntu 22.04

As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

When IBM spectrum protect baclient will support SNAPDIFF backup on NETAPP version 9.13.y?

The BA client version 8.1.13 (or later) up to but not including version 8.1.23 supports NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.9.y (where y is 0 or higher). Starting with version 8.1.23 (or later), support extends to NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.12.y (whe...

SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.16 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...