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Operations Center: Automatic PMR Creation and Support Bundle Upload

Automated open/creation of PMR from Spectrum Protect Operations Center and upload of Support Data Collection Bundle
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under 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

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

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 Overlay-FS for disk that are provisioned per CNSA/Storage Scale

We want to use Storage Scale with the CNSA-Implementation also with the requirement to use this for the Image-Building Process like BUILDKIT. But this doesnt work today becouse of missing Overlay-FS Support. The benefit will be to use more then on...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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

Jump Host / Bastian Host to replace KVM in Fusion HCI Rack

Fusion HCI has pre-requisites for a DNS server / DHCP server to support the build process for a HCI cluster. In addition to which AIR Gap Installations require a local server to provide the repository for the installation content for the cluster. ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

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

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) support for RSA SecurID

Many large, heavily regulated enterprises require multifactor authentication (MFA) on mission critical technology assets. One of the most popular on-prem MFA solutions is RSA SercurID. RSA is supported on the IBM DS8k product, it should also be su...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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