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Add application aware backup and restore for Guardiaum Insights application

Client is running Guardium Insights in their OCP cluster, and are challenged with current data protection process, and need an enterprise level, automated application aware Backup & Restore solution for this environment.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Exclude File System Type

Would like to exclude per the file system type.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus for PowerVM

Backup Virtual Machines from IBM PowerVM virtualization
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

IBM SP Protect server support on w2k19

I have to install a new IBM Sectrum protect server.I wish to use the OS Windows 2019 Server but I've seen that IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 is not supported on this version.I really wish to use this version of OS (Windows 2019) is possible to know w...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Better ability to filter out nodes when creating retention rule

In an big vmware deployment you want your retention rules to be as dynamic as possible. That is you want ability to create an advanced filter to filter out the virtual machines (VM's) to be included in the retention set. In an vmware environment y...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add host_unmap option in the auto config wizard

In case we have Flash system behind SVC storage and we are running the wizard of auto config for virtualization - it is important also to add option to configure host_unmap.since by default the wizard does not change the default value.host_unmap o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

DBBackup to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is STILL no way to get database backups into the cloud directly. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which was rejected by AIX prod...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Forecast of remaining Restore Duration

Dynamically get a Forecast by spectrum protect Server of the remaining Restore Duration for Restores of Databases and File Restore
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Adaptive inhibit reclaim schedule

The inhibit reclaim schedule today is static. When workload is increasing or shifting over time, reclamation might occur, when physical tape drives would be better used for premigration tasks. An adaptive reclamation algorithm taking workload into...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 7.0 VM

According to the support page, VMware ESX and ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x are supported but not ESXi 7.0. IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platformshttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

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