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Windows Server 2019 Core

Exchange 2019 is supported on Windows Server 2019 Server Core. We need support for backup/restore on this platform Microsoft is pushing Windows Server 2019 Server Core as the OS of choice for Exchange 2019. On https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/e...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Support for Hyper-V guests on SMB MS Scale-Out File Cluster

Support is required for TSM4VE Hyper-V when Hyper-V guests are placed on a Windows Scale-Out File Server Cluster (SMB).

Provide AWS image for SPP server

It is currently not possible to deploy the SPP server in AWS. The SPP vSnap can be deployed in AWS, but this require an on-prem SPP server (or a SPP server deployed in VMware Cloud on AWS). An AWS specific SPP AMI image is required.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Report of unprotected VMs

Dashboard and "Protected VMs" report on which VMs are protected and it also reports on number of unprotected VMs but not which VMs are unprotected.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Exclude Single Disks during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of a virtual machine. This enhancement will result in tremendous data reduction.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Delivered

Command to move/migrate data from legacy storage pool to container pool

With the release of 7.1.3 and the new container pools there is currently no command that will let you migrate data from a legacy storage pool to the new container pool. This makes it much more complicated for us as we have to support multiple stor...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Snapdiff backup support for SP 8.1.4.1 Windows client and OnTap 9.3P2

We currently use Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 client to do SnapDiff backup of OnTap 8.3.2P7 file shares. We would like to be able to do the same using Spectrum Protect 8.1.4.x doing SnapDiff backups of OnTap 9.3P2 file shares. This functionality is crit...

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage as container storage pool.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

TIVsm-WEBGUI REST API documentation

Having installed and configured TIVsm-WEBGUI package the REST API is visable an useable. But no documentation exists.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Need steps on how we can integrate SPserver with QRADAR SIEM for application threat detection

Useful in integration of QRADAR SIEM with the sp server. And what events to be monitored for the threat detection on sp server?
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered