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Azure AVS support for Spectrum Protect for VE and SPP

The client of a BP would like to continue using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments as they migrate their vmware farm to Microsoft Azure AVS.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Enable setup of cataloging of file metadata at an SLA level as well as a VM level

Enable the catalog metdata option at an SLA level as well as VM level. This is so its easier to enable in larger environments when a customer wants to enable across the entire estate. Also be good if we provided a standard GPO to enable the rollou...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

move or migrate cloud container

There's no way or support to move or migrate the content of a cloud container.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Options to disable Dual control for few sessions

We have enabled dual control for our CSM server, but there are some sessions which are managed by API or manual control. In those cases, having dual control makes it little difficult to implement since we need a 2nd ID to approve the activity. Wou...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

set disableDeduplication = bTrue for DSM_OBJ_DIRECTORY objects

Clarification of API document regarding client side deduplication, and that this has to be disabled for driectory type of objects objAttrArea.disableDeduplication = bTrue;objName.objType = DSM_OBJ_DIRECTORY; Or better; update the API so that clien...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Chaining Opscenters for REST API via one central Opscenter

Having several Opscenters managing several Spectrum Protect Instances, and having currently the restriction only to have 1 Hub server, this makes Management by branches and departments complicated. Therefore we appreciate to group Servers of speci...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Certificate used on port 1751

DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

SP / SPP integrated with CyberArk

Many customers are using cyberark to protect the access to the systems. it is a requirement from a large couple of customers.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Show dedup and compression ratio per VM

We can see total deduplication and compression ratio from SPP UI.This information is about all the backups taken and not detailed.Also we can see backup data per VM from "VM Backup Utilization" report.We should be able to see deduplication and com...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration