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Restore of backed up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same may fail

Based on APAR IT34036, backing up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same as the original virtual machine name can result in data to become unrecoverable because the state of the original vm and the replica may differ (...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Add "Warning" to VM Backup History Report

Add "Warning" to List of Status Parameters in VM Backup History Report.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP| exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup

In SPP for VM snapshot base backup, exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup. End user want to exclude there application/DB folder (one/more than one folder or particular extension for file like .mdf,.ldf)
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Catalog backup SLA report

Hello, We are a MSP which has ESA agreement with IBM. We provide IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a service to our customers and guarantee %100 restore for the backups they take.Of course, we only offer this to our customers who receive Managed Servic...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Remove from SLA button

When modifying subject being backed up by a specific SLA, it would be more user friendly if you added a "Remove SLA" / "Unassign from SLA" button. Now i need to "Select a SLA Policy" to actually unselect a subject from a SLA.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

The Menu ?DS8000 Paths? should include the Location column

If you add a storage connection at the “Storage System” menu you are able to give the new storage system a “description” at the Location column. This is very helpful to distinguish the storage systems. It would be very helpful to display this colu...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Inbound replication should report statistics into the summary table

Currently statistics for data ingested using replication (classic, stgrule or protect stgpool) is not completely reported to the summary table, the bytes value is always 0. This makes it difficult to run reports or monitor load on a server that ha...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure start time for SPP "inventory" jobs

Customer requires functionality to configure start time for SPP inventory jobs.Default Application Server InventoryDefault Hypervisor Inventory
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore in TSM4VE

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore.API error message : The device '3' is referring to a nonexisting controller '31,000'.Case TS001855546
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Subnet specification for RDMA based clusters

When connecting two Scale Clusters via RDMA, the "subnets" parameter is limiting. We at Vcinity specialize in building equipment that is used for connecting systems over the wan using the RDMA protocol. Whether it is InfiniBand or ROCE, we provide...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration