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Spectrum Protect for VE - "Wrong" Platform Name for Node using SP BA Client on Datamover server

When we use Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment to back VMWare Virtual Machines we have "Spectrum Protect for VE" and "Spectrum Protect BA client" installed on the same machine. To backup VMs we create Data Mover node name DATAMOVER_NAME . Th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

AIX update Spectrum protect server instal manual to set maxuproc='4096'

I tried to "su" to tsminst1 userid, and got the following message.0403-030 the fork function failed. Too many processes allready exist.ulimit -Hc , Hd, Hf, Hn, and Ht allready set to unlimited.I ran the following command;lsattr -E -l sys0 -a maxup...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP automatically deleting Job ID when all VMs/Datastores are deselected

Spectrum Protect Plus when removing datastores or VMs from an SLA policy if you remove all the SLA policy goes into a "deleted" state on the back end and when you assign a new datastore even if it was the same one it creates a new Job ID and does ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Migrate object storage to tape

For the upcoming object interface in Spectrum Scale it should be possible to migrate object data to tape.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Scheduled reports. Save to local path in SPP

Hi.Regarding how to schedule a report to NOT use smtp server due to DMZ and sectret networks. We are handling SPP in DMZ and secret networks where there is no smpt server allowed. How can we save scheduled reports to a local path?For us this is im...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

retset without retrule

The new feature retset requiers to define also an retrule with is basicly a scheduler. We use an external scheduler and don't need the retrule. It's also useless to define an retule for ontime retset. It should be possible to generate an retset wi...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Protecting Wide Cluster resources using Fusion UI

If we want to protect any cluster resources of any namespace, We have to create a recipe and assign it to specific application
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Check Backed up OpenShift Resources through Fusion UI

Only way to verify backed up resources within a namespace is using scripts. Doing this through Fusion UI is going to be a lot better. Specially in larger OCP deployments.
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Network Virtualization Fusion

In telecommunications industry we cannot use standard virtualization with Fusion HCI. This will open us a new market segment
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

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