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Storage Protect Family

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IAM functionality via REST API

I’d like to raise our concern on Storage Protect product violating one of our internal guidelines by being incapable of providing required service. It is expected to manage Storage Protect administrative accounts from enterprise internal Identity ...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

External storage level immutability integration in application level

Currently there is a workaround provided by Dell to present Data Domain DD Boost storage units as BoostFS mount points and eventually storage pool to Storage Protect server. In this way, one can take advantage of high deduplication rate, encryptio...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Allowing multiple node to store data

Hello! Since we are using SPVE to back up our VMware servers, all of the VMs are backed up into a single node on the Storage Prottect Server. For an extra layer of security, we've enabled the node replication on this node to send the data to AWS u...

Add an expiration date when using DECOMMISSION VM or DECOMMISSION NODE

Hello! Having the possibility to enter a date (not mandatory) when decomissioning a vm or node will be very helpful. Most of my users told me to decommission a VM, but asking to keep its backup for a longer period than the associated management cl...
6 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
18 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Restrict TSM admin users

Please find a way to restrict TSM admin users to VIEW ONLY. In order to use third party monitoring software and use admin credential for TSM view only (admin schedule results, stg pools etc)
7 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Support for native velero v1.14 backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

Currently Velero v1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] and IBM are currently not supporting this. To support this code changes to storage protect object agent side are needed.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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-...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

Balanced usage of tape drive generations. Changing behaviour of librarymanager when selecting drive for tape mount.

The idea is: When using a specific format in a deviceclass, the tapedrives selection alogorithm should not discriminate tapedrives with higher capabilities In an environment with different tapedrive models (for example TS1155 and TS1160) but all d...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted