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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Spectrum Protect required two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems

My client needs two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. They need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems, and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Define subrule (tiering) add syntax

When making a "Define subrule" for tiering you are only able to use node_name. It would be perfect if it was possible to use node_group_name as well, just like in define subrule for replication.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

target server for replicate node

Protect should allow replicating some nodes to one target server, and other nodes to a second target server.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

File Type retention storage pool

Only Tape class is supported as Retention Pool however many customer that has NAS appliance as secondary backup storage instead of Tape like to use retention set with a copy to secondary storage.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add maximum parallel sessions for NDMP backups

Limit the number of parallel backup sessions for NDMP backups of NetApp (or any other) NAS node.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.

Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Get actual data size of data stored using API

TSM should provide the actual size of the data object stored using the TSM API. Possible solutions:A) update the size value after the transfer completes with the actual size (preferred).B) introduce a second size value (one: allocated, other: actu...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Better handling of events when schedules overlap

When a node is busy with a long-running schedule, several schedules for the same node might be missed - for example when having hourly incremental backups, and a full backup is running.It would be desirable, if the TSM server could "bypass" these ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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