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Storage Protect Family

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    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 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

    We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration
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    Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

    Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Remove unecessary QUERY JOB errors from actlog due to running servermon

    When servermon is activated using the parameter ALWAYSONSERVERMON on, the message “ANR0213E QUERY JOB: No jobs found” appears in actlog every 10 minutes. This cannot be disabled, even if you delete or comment out the entry QUERY JOB FORMAT=detail ...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

    Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Disaster recovery from Storage Protect backup pool for big file systems

    We are running multiple Storage Scale file systems in the multi Petabyte size. All data are in Storage Protect backup. The backup is very valuable in case of user driven data loss. But in the case of a disaster where the complete file system is lo...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pool Storage Space Reduction

    Bosch is requesting a Spectrum Protect server administrative command which allows the administrator to reclaim container storage pool space including deletion of empty volumes from the file system.In an optimal implementation, the administrative c...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

    Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allow data-lock cloud containers to be reclaimed

    I would like to have the feature "Reclaim Containers" available when using datalock stgpools. Looking at my SPOC console, I will have 263.3TB of data that could be reclaimed from my cloud storage pool. Since this is not supported because I'm using...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    vSnap – migrate data from one vSnap to another vSnap

    vSnaps of SPP are created but in the lifecycle the amount of data will increase. When a new vSnap is needed to increase capacity at the moment only new VMs will be backed up to this vSnap. To migrate data of vSnaps you need to create a new policy:...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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