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Storage Protect Family

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Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support nested groups from Active Directory

Currently SPP does not supported nested Active Directory groups.Only direct group members are able to login. With a "nested" group member - so a member of a group under the added group doesn't work.Here's what I mean: Group 1 (added to SPP) <- ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

encrypted standard/archive copy to S3 like SP

If I want to save the data securely in the cloud - without extra encryption of the buckets by S3 Provider, then the vSnap encryption on the VSnap doesn’t help either. The bucket file is always stored unencrypted. We would like to implement a func...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Introduce support for AD objects & containers

Introduce support for AD objects & containers
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide a replication status in the dashboard to verify vSnap replication is in sync/running etc.

A status view is required to identify if vSnap replication is in sync / running / out-of-sync similar to the replication status view in the Operation Center for Spectrum Protect replication.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support reversal of roles of replication servers which have Retention Sets

If you have retention sets on either a source or target replication server, you cannot reverse the roles of the replication servers; that is, you cannot make the source server the target server and vice versa. If you do so, data in retention sets ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Massive initial load

During the system configuration phase, it would be useful to be able to do the massive import of providers and identities (whether they are passwords or keyfiles). This would drastically reduce time spent to setup the environment.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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