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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Spectrum Protect Windows server as virtual machine on KVM based hypervisor.

    In order to be compliant with IBM to get support and to have more flexibility around Spectrum Protect, we need to be able to run Spectrum Protect server as a virtual machine on a KVM based hypervisor (RHEV/Proxmox VE/Native KVM etc...) with Window...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Design change to avoid deletion of Backup Data from a malicious hacker, mentally disturbed or very angry at his workplace

    The following is a suggestion to ensure that Backup Data cannot be deleted by malicious hackers, internal Backup administrators who are very angry at their workplace or mentally disturbed. The proposal is to create a minimum of 5 Backup Admin Appr...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Migrate data from one cloud storage pool to another cloud storage pool

    We need feature to migrate data from one cloud container storage pool to another cloud container storage pool using "move nodedata" as it's currently only support sequencial storage pool but won't support container storage pools
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Decomission of file system for agent base

    we are able to perform the completed server using decomission command decom node nodename can we have update feature of this like decom filespace nodename fsid nametype=fsid like this.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Thresholds for security notifications

    The security notifications introduced in v8.1.5 for ransomware protection can't be tuned and are usually inadequate for volatile systems. After every client backup session, statistics are analyzed for signs of a ransomware infection (large increas...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Nodes with retention sets require to have dedicated metadata to be replicated to target server void expiration of data

    Hi Team, i having issue in performance on Source TSM server due to TSM DB size is more than 13TB in size, so my management requested to split current TSM server with Multiple server (2 new TSM server). So by moving Filesystem backup for top 40serv...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    More control over "disable sessions" for client nodes

    Sometimes it may be necessary to prevent clients from connecting to a Spectrum Protect Server to perform backups. Reasons for this can be, for example, maintenance work on the Spectrum Protect Server, where access to the storage pool is not given....
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Improve documentation on Spectrum Protect Object Agent

    See related case TS008878679. There is no documentation on the configuration details of the Object Agent. The object agent is needed to offload data from Spectrum Protect Plus to Spectrum Protect. There is no documetation on the object_agent_confi...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Lift the limit that one filespace can only have one node replication session

    I got more than 50 filespaces, some of these filespaces are filled with PB-level file data. To replicate one of the PB-level filespaces on LTO-8 tapes, will take more than one month. 1PB=1024*1024*1024 MB LTO-8 Drive read/write speed: 360MB/s 1024...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

    The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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