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My votes: Storage Protect Family

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GCP Object Lock support

Backups immutability feature by using google cloud object locking. Add GCP to a large list of already compatible object storage sources: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-object-storage-support
about 24 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Support for snapshot based Hyper-V backup on Windows 2025

Planning of upgrade to Hyper-V on Windows 2025 needs support to protect the data via snapshots.
7 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Support for Ubuntu 22.04

As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Add an expiration date when using DECOMMISSION VM or DECOMMISSION NODE

Hello! Having the possibility to enter a date (not mandatory) when decomissioning a vm or node will be very helpful. Most of my users told me to decommission a VM, but asking to keep its backup for a longer period than the associated management cl...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Implement the cancel reclaim command

At this moment, it's not possible to cancel a reclamation process through ISP scripting. The only option you have is to do this outside of the server with OS scripts. These scripts first have to retrieve the process number of running reclaim proce...
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Allowing multiple node to store data

Hello! Since we are using SPVE to back up our VMware servers, all of the VMs are backed up into a single node on the Storage Prottect Server. For an extra layer of security, we've enabled the node replication on this node to send the data to AWS u...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository. I think it will be a good idea to create a repository and manually upload the deployment packages.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Submitted

Storage Protect Storage Agent should report all issue to the Storage Protect server activitiy log

We run into a LANfree backup issue. Diagnosing the issue took a long time because the STA was not reporting the drive failures into the SP server activity log. Environment: SP AIX library manager (LM) server 8.1.21.0, SP server name LIBMGR. SP AIX...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Submitted

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