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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect REST API : Further Development

The Spectrum Protect Client Management Service allows REST API calls to start a backup, restore, update BA client configs, restart daemons, and so on. It is a great initiative. And we need something like that. More than ever now that the BA webage...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Move filespace to another node

It would be helpful to be able to change the retention of a VM after it has been deleted, without having to restore, rebind, then re-delete. Ideally, we would be able to add a target node name to RENAME FILESPACE, or a new command for MOVE FILESPA...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Avoid filespace lock used by export server/node

Tivoli Storage Server supports export node/export server functionality which is used e.g. for data migration. During the export process the filespace ,currently identifying files to export, is locked. The ability to avoid locking the filespace was...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

HTTP banner in DSMCAD Spectrum Protect client

When scanning open ports of servers, the port 1581 (default, or configured by "httpport" in dsm.opt) answers with the string "Server: TSM_HTTP/0.1".This might be a security issue, as an attacker could see, which software is (TSM / Spectrum Protect...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow SLA jobs to be run only by external tools rather than the SPP scheduler

We have had a number of customers wanting to running SPP SLA jobs via other tools. Currently you are able to run an existing SLA job by the RestAPI but only if it is already scheduled to run via the SPP scheduler. If you hold the SLA job you are u...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide container pool data protection on same SP instance on disk/NAS devices

Container pool (directory pool) data protection on the same SP instance is currently only supported to tape devices (or VTL). We would require to protect data and store it on a NFS device mounted on to the same SP instance. Moreover the SP instanc...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

backup individiual vm within current sla

We would like to see the ability to restart/retry failed vm's within an SLA without running the complete SLA.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Private AWS DirectConnect domain support in SP

Our customer need to have support in Spectrum Protect for using private AWS DirectConect domain for VPCE in URL Cloud Connection for S3. SP currently support only public domain in URL like "s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" This Spectrum Protect limitat...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Full VM restore with HD 1 only

The question is, how to restore the VM without having All Hard Disks, beside "Hard Disk 1" being created and allocated in the datastore. We do backup of "Hard disk 1" only for a VM, see attached "SPFILOPS17 backup detail.jpg" When we restore the V...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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