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Storage Protect Family

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Improving offload hardware requirement efficiency

Hi, Currently, when an SPP customer would like to have a copy on tapes, he has 2 alternatives:1. copy mode - to have additional storage space in the ISP server (as directory container) to allow incremental copies. that requires twice the capacity ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo SSl / TLS

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo client agent does not have support for SSL or TLS security keys. Please add SSL /TLS security function to the Mongo agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Deleted VM expiration by TSM for VE

The classical implementation of TSM for VE relies on one or multiple Datamover node processing the backups (let's say at least one). A Datamover node is usually not the "master" node, i.e. the datamover node is a proxy node of the main "container"...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SPP - restart a job for one VM in Sla

we need to restart a backup job for one VM (if errors during last sla jobs)
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Migrate Storagepool - Client data is faster than migration

Client backups fail when migration of storage pool to successor storagepool takes too long.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP native restore to VSI on IBM Cloud

Many OnPrem VMWare environments require both backup to IBM Cloud using Spectrum Protect Plus and a non-urgent form of DR plan using IBM Cloud components. Currently this is only possible using Bare Metal options. SPP should be natively able to rest...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Request for a Server option to prevent the server to pass the communication options for a replication target to a client

Starting with version 7.1 a client can failover to a replication target for restoring data. If the client is enabled and configured for replication on the server, the client receives the communication options for the target and adds the informatio...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute Backup Schedules on-demand

The ability to execute a schedule task in the Backup Schedules list manually. The current behavior is scheduled backup will only run at a scheduled time, we cannot right click and choose run now (similar to an adhoc backup).
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

OC Send reports monthly

Today OC can create and send reports daily or weekly, we would like to create and send report monthly also. We have seen the need at several customers to send monthly reports.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Improve effectiveness of node replication process

The effectiveness of the node replication process needs to be improved, when data is located on FILEDEV device class based storage - in order to be better able to utilize the maximum defined number of sessions when possible.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration