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Jump Host / Bastian Host to replace KVM in Fusion HCI Rack

Fusion HCI has pre-requisites for a DNS server / DHCP server to support the build process for a HCI cluster. In addition to which AIR Gap Installations require a local server to provide the repository for the installation content for the cluster. ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP should disable vSphere storage vMotion during backup

If vSphere storage vMotion is performed during SPP VM backup there may be left orphaned VMDK files on datastores. This causes operational problems for customers
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Requirements and design to deal with 10 billion of indexed files

Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Protect Customer wants to build a spectrum discover environment which handles up to 12 billion indexed files we are testing Spectrum Discover with 02 Spectrum Protect servers as data sources. Only these two server r...
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

Requesting Support for 2-Factor Authentication with Spectrum Protect

As backup data is a primary tool used to recover from ransomware, ensuring the highest level of security surrounding the protection of TSM / Spectrum Protect data has been highlighted by Information Security. Having administrative accounts which h...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Chargeback reporting in SPP (Pre/Post Dedup/Compression)

There is a similar RFE from a US customer but their requirements seem to differ slightly: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119247 Request from customer on chargeback reporting in SPP. This is a requirement f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enhance RESTful API to include configuration information missing in the existing offering

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. SSL/TLS Session Timeout Endpoint Identification on LDAP connections SP800-131a Compliance HTTP/HTTPs for Web Dual Control (in R5.4) LDAP Primary Server URL LDAP Alternate Server...
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Planned for future release

Test ISPP with Linux 8.5

For ISPP server we have currently Linux version of 7.X and Linux team is planning to upgrade to RedHat Linux version 8.5 and they cant go for 8.4 as it has security vulnerability Please advice correct version of ISPP which is compatible with for L...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow local protect storagepool for cloud Container

Because of compliance guidelines, many users need to implement a “media brake” at their backup strategy. But the, very cost effective, Cloud Container Storage lacks the ability to protect the Storage pool to a tape pool.As the “protect stgpool typ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release