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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Support AWS PrivateLink for S3 bucket in Spectrum Protect

We use AWS PrivateLink, which allows AWS customers to send data to S3 over a site-to-site VPN and their VPC, instead of going over the public internet. AWS PrivateLink works by giving customers a personalized DNS address, which can be used to acce...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support DELL ECS and other for S3 lock container

Give the Avaibility to add an S3 lock container on a Dell ECS solution to improve the security. Actually it's just possible to lock the data on COS or AWS.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

MOVE DATA command enhancement

The enhancement I'd like to see is a PREVIEW option on the MOVE DATA command. The preview would summarise which tapes will be required for the move but would not actually move any data. Knowing which tapes will be required can be important in situ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

NDMP backups to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is no way to get NDMP into the cloud. Also, NDMP TOC data cannot be replicated at all. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which wa...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

DECOMMISSION NODE/VM with Enddate

Add date parameter to DECOMMISION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM command.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM-Server Support for ONTAP NDMP CAB Feature

NetApp offers since Clustered ONTAP(cDOT) 8.2 the NDMP Feature CAB (Cluster Aware Backup). Data Volume movements within a ONTAP Cluster (which may consist of currently up to 24 Storage Controllers; by "Vol Move" command) is an liked Feature for al...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Users should not be able to view every other users' filespaces

Currently, any authorised user of TSM can view the list of filespaces owned by any other user (provided that user is running on the same platform) by giving the "fromnode" argument to 'query filespace' in dsmc, for instance:> q fi -fromnode="my...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Private AWS DirectConnect domain support in SP

Our customer need to have support in Spectrum Protect for using private AWS DirectConect domain for VPCE in URL Cloud Connection for S3. SP currently support only public domain in URL like "s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" This Spectrum Protect limitat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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