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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

    Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

    The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

    Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

    Improve performance when retrieving partial tapes by using RAO/oRAO on supported tape drives

    IBM Enterprise tape drives (TS1140/3592-E07 onwards) supports Recommended Access Order (RAO). LTO-9 drives supports Open Recommended Acces Order (oRAO). This feature allows a tape drive to advise an application on the optimum retrieval order based...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    File list limited for 1000 lines using restore node commnad

    Hi team, we are using restore node NODE_NAME /FS FILELIST=FILE:/list_files_in_HEX.txt nametype=HEXadecimal. We are restoring data from NAS node. Customer is using France Diacritics in DIR and File names which impact filler on NAS side. Filler is u...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Storage Protect server encryption for sequential file storage pools

    The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal encryption for sequential file. For security reasons, user data stored on Storage Prote...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect server compression for sequential file storage pools

    The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal compression for sequential file. To safe disk space utilized by a Storage Protect serve...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

    Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

    Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

    Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance Spectrum Protect to use Tapefunction Recomended Access Order for repair stg Containerpool from Tape.

    The current support of tapefunction in Protect has more then one gaps in the area off use tape storage. The main concerns are the support of tape in the relation to containerstg. These current designs generate a alongated repair time if we want to...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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