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Storage Protect Family

115 VOTE

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 ...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

support of IBM COS Onprem Container mode with Object Lock in SP

Currently, only vault mode with Protectected Vault retention is supported. We need support for container mode to enable governance or compliance mode on SP immutable backups
6 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Request for Enhancement – Detailed Backup Object Metadata in IBM Storage Protect Server

Description: Currently, the Backup‑Archive Client (dsmc query backup -detail or GUI) displays Last Modified Date, Last Accessed Date, Backup Date, and file attributes of the backup object. However, the IBM Storage Protect server (e.g., BACKUPS tab...
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Enable NDMP NAS Restore to Alternate Filer Without Modifying Production Datamover Configuration

Background / Context The customer currently, restoring NDMP NAS backups to an alternate NetApp filer requires modifying the production datamover configuration (IP address and drive path). As documented in the IBM technote: https://www.ibm.com/supp...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery Submitted

Tiering Object Client Data from a Directory Container Storage Pool (Standard Pool) to Tape

Currently, IBM Storage Protect allows object client data to be moved to tape only when it resides in a cold storage pool(using the S3 Glacier storage class). There is no supported method to migrate object client data directly from a Directory Cont...
12 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

add the server certificates and key database to the prepare plan file

To recover a Storage Protect server 5 files need to be backed up via some customer process separate from the Storage Protect tools. Creating a reliable workflow to protect these crucial files can be prone to error and thus to a failure of the abil...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

VM backups getting backed up as datamover filespaces instead of using ASNODENAME -> TS018892184 - dfwtsmprod: TDP4VE backups running with DM name instead of ASnode name which is not supposed to.

This will avoid duplicate backups on data mover node. When this happens full backup start for all VM as they now store data in data mover node. Admins then have to clear data manually from datamover node as function of datamover is only to send da...
8 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Automate vCenter certificate import into Data Protection for VMware GUI truststore during Installation/Upgrade

Starting from Data Protection for VMware 8.1.23 and later, administrators must manually perform additional post-installation/post-upgrade configuration to establish trusted communication between the Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI and VMwar...
30 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

Enhancement for Replication to Dissimilar Policies

In case of using replication to dissimilar policies and stgrule "ALL_DATA" with lower retention* parameters on the target site, the source send nevertheless all of source data to the target server.After it, a part of inactive data will be deleted ...
27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Client updates stored locally on hub server

There should be possibility to use local client updates for customers where security policy doesn't allow to use internet connection.
28 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) Submitted

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