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Allow exclude vm disks in the TSM4VE GUI (or select/include only particular disks to be backed up for a VM)

We utilise TSM4VE to take backups of the system disk only of virtual servers like SQL. TSM4VE requires manual entries in the dsm.opt file. This is cumbersome and error prone, and having inclusions for disks available in the GUI would make this pro...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Attach an existing directory to a fileset

Was discussing root admin with ibm dev Germany and realized that some commands seem never to have finished development. You have two commands one to create a fileset and another to link it to a directory. But the link one requires the directory to...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Manually running cloud offload per VM

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run VM backups manually by selecting the VM and clicking the "run" button.When we want run replication or offload we need to run the schedule.We should be able run run replication or offload jobs per VM manually ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL 2012 in Windows 2016

We have 2 Windows Server 2016 with both SQL 2012 and SQL 2016 instances.We need a TDP client version compatible with these three components, so we can backup all Databases in both SQL versions.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Non-SSL adhoc node restoration not possible to initiate

Non-SSL Node adhoc restoration not possible configured to IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.3 We have active directory authentication enabled for our spectrum protect admin session which requires SSL. But all of our nodes are still running in Non-SS...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

OpCenter NAS Filesystems

Should be able to see NAS/NDMP filespaces as a column in Operation Center, and track last backup date. Expectation:Operation Center -> Clients -> NAS Filesystems* Just like Virtual Machines expands out the entities and filespaces for each VM...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

BackupSet tape Migration

We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Lanfree Backup to COS/S3/Blob Storage

Enable Lan free backup support for Multi Cloud. Allow nondedup container pool.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Run Spectrum Scale in IBM FS Cloud

Run Spectrum Scale in the IBM FS CLoud to feed a Hybrid Cloud data fabric. Help IBM to better compete VS MSoft Azure and Cloudera's Ozone.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

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