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Storage Protect Family

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Add query volume for NDMP snapmirror backup

Add a query volume option for BACKUP NODE TYPE=SNAPMirror Sample: QUERY BACKUP NODE [node] TYPE=SNAPMirror This would simply the backup for backup operators without access to the NetApp filer. The workaround "BACKUP NODE cluster1node1 TOC=No TYPE=...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

move or migrate cloud container

There's no way or support to move or migrate the content of a cloud container.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

excel report output without nice formatting would be better

The reporting feature of Spectrum protect plus has two output formats. PDF and Excel.To work with the data in bulk, excel is the preferred output, but it has too much formatting applied. I need one line outputs. Not the server name on one line and...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Restrict ProLE access to host-only

ProLE process listens on port 57321/tcp (configurable, may differ) on all IPs and network adapters for connections. One of our customers stumbled upon this during a security scan and considers it to be a security risk. Since in my understanding Pr...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TDP for VE 8.1.2 should not update the VMware guest notes field

Starting with IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments - Data protection for VMware 8.1.2.0, each completed VM backup updates the guest notes field.This can be a problem when that same notes field is used for other internal processes.There is...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Chaining Opscenters for REST API via one central Opscenter

Having several Opscenters managing several Spectrum Protect Instances, and having currently the restriction only to have 1 Hub server, this makes Management by branches and departments complicated. Therefore we appreciate to group Servers of speci...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SP / SPP integrated with CyberArk

Many customers are using cyberark to protect the access to the systems. it is a requirement from a large couple of customers.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Show catalog restore process

When restoring Spectrum Protect Plus catalog, first it takes us to log-in screen.But we can't log-in because "server is being brought" screen come out we need to wait until it's completed.There is no log or information on the screen. We're waiting...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Show dedup and compression ratio per VM

We can see total deduplication and compression ratio from SPP UI.This information is about all the backups taken and not detailed.Also we can see backup data per VM from "VM Backup Utilization" report.We should be able to see deduplication and com...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

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