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Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

Provide a "number of days" parameter so the "SUR Occupancy data" can be collected less than the set value of once a week.

THis is very valuable for BackEnd Licensing purposes. As example, we show to be 6 TB out of compliance, but in the last 5 days we have deleted 11 TB. Yet we still show as being out of compliance because the "SUR Occupancy data" is so far out of da...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance High Availability

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance holds critical Data to backup and restore VMs. At present there is no way to make this Highly Available (HA) similar to Vsphere appliance. During normal operation we should be able to: Switch to secondary site and s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Enable SPP Oracle log backup logging

While roll forwarding a oracle DB when restoring, the restore suddenly stopped, because a log file was not provided. Unfortunately, in the logs for the log backup to vSnap, you cannot see which log files were backed up and if everything was succes...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support for SQL Express

Today SQL Express is not supported. But there is no reason for why. It has all the functionality as the FULL sql, except limits on CPU and RAM. Backups works fine etc. The only part that will not work today is the mmc gui that wont complete its co...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

Support ZFS on Linux Client

We use FreeBSD servers with ZFS filesystems on our large storage systems. Since there is no native FreeBSD Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client, we intend to use the Linux version leveraging FreeBSD's Linux runtime environment. But the SP Backup...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Running jobs on an SLA consecutively

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run all jobs on a schedule. When replicating, copying or archiving a backup data we need to set a time to the job.But sometimes backups take more time than usual and in that case replication and/or copy job fails...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Request for Spectrum Scale to support Redhat SSSD as 3rd Authentication Method

Request for Spectrum Scale to support RedHat Systems Security Software Daemon (SSSD) as a third authentication method. Salesforce # TS001343971
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Timeout for Replication

We have seen a scenario where if we got a Network Issue between two IBM Storage Protect Servers and the replication failed on the Source machine the target machine doesn't timeout it session. When we get in that stage we can't cancel any sessions ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review