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Client Support for SnapDiff API v2

The possibility of using of FlexGroup volume is very necessary for us as supercomputing centre. First by using of FlexGroup volume is possible excite the 100TB boundary of other kinds of NetApp volumes.Working backup with SP Client of such volumes...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Schedule upgrading Spectrum Scale Nodes on OpenShift with ibm-spectrum-scale-controller-manager

We have different OpenShift workers in different MachineConfigPools. Each Pool represents a different client. We want possibility to alter or schedule the upgrade order of spectrum scale nodes of worker pools which are in spectrum scale Cluster (C...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

SPP - Option for a Policy with Zero Retention / No Backup

We have several VMs in our environment that we do NOT want to backup. We tag these VMs with #No-Backup. However, there is currently no way in SPP to omit these VMs from the stats or associate them with a ‘No-Backup' Policy with a zero-day retentio...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Storage Fusion support for mutiple (1, 2 or 3) replica deployment model and lower infrastrucutre cost

Many modern OpenShift workloads are doing application level HA with deployment across AZ with transaction replication. The most prominant of these from the IBM SW portfolio are CP4I and CP4BA. For these workloads, their deployment with Fusion Data...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

success ful backup in database

So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Replication Workload

The workload value for the node replication in spectrum protect is based on an estimated value. The complete history of this value is visible when the summary table is filtered for activity='REPL_WORKLOAD'. The last value of repl_workload is also ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

CentOs as a supported OS for TDP for VE datamover

Having RHEL 7 as supported Environment, and having CentOS 7 as supported in Spectrum Protect, it is highly appreciated to enhance support for running TDPVMware datamover and mountproxy in CentOS as well.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

TSM B/A Client "archive vm" equivalent of "backup vm"

In the current TSM b/a client for windows (with VMware tools), there is a "backup vm" command that will perform full image or file level backups for VM guests. There is no option to perform an archive (file level or image) We need the ability to a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Backup of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments

Currently there is no support for backups of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments with TSM/ISP4VE (which is stated in the documentation). Due to the fact that some customers require encryption for their VMware environments, support for the new (V6.5...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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