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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Support of X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] in SP Object Agent

    We backup up native Kubernetes workload with native Velero to SP Object Agent. Since Velero Version 1.13 the backup to SP Object Agent is not working anymore. Velero 1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Execute file rights need to be removed from AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files

    For security reasons, execute file rights need to be removed from all AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files. IBM support confirmed that the execute file rights are not required and can be removed. Example: /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/servermon# ls...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Increse Blocksize Spectrum Protect is writing to Tape

    Support bigger blocksize in Spectrum Protect Server than 256k or make it variable.For long distance Tape attachments latency become an issue which will dramatically decrease Tape Throughput.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    AlwaysOn Servermon lslv lspv AIX commands need to be changed to prevent hang situations

    Today, the Storage Protect server AlwaysOn Servermon issues the following commands to gather information about AIX logical and physical volumes: lsvg -o | lsvg -illsvg -o | lsvg -ip lspv -l ... in a loop for all hdisks. We request to add -L option...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    change tape read/write throughput rates

    Testing of Tapeoperations (move data) and got a throughput of only 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s with LTO7 tapedrives - in a Situation where nothing else happened
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support for Azure Blob Storage Cold tier in TSM Server

    Microsoft Azure Blob Storage offers three online access tiers: Hot, Cool, and Cold.According to current documentation and support statements, the IBM TSM Server (Tivoli Storage Manager) currently supports only the Hot and Cool tiers. From a techni...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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

    In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    Improvement of SP command 'q job'

    Hello IBM Here is my idea: It will be useful to be able to improve the command 'q job' such that it is possible to use the stgrule name as parameter, to just see the jobs for that particular stgrule. We are using many different stgrules, and today...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Spectrum protect with java version 11

    The latest version of the Java that is supported with the SP for VE and the server is version 8 which means that Java version 11 is not supported as it hasn't been tested. But our customer is planning to remove Java 8 on all the servers across the...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 12 Planned for future release

    Library initialization at SP Server startup needs improvement

    When a Storage Protect server is starting up, it is querying the inventory of each tape library defined to this Storage Protect server. the Storage Protect server is using a 256KB buffer to store the inventory information returned by the tape libr...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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