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SPVE vCenter Backup Failure resolution

We are using SPVE to backup vCenter appliances. We frequently get timeout errors when creating snapshot. Would like some facility to resolve this issue, possibly an option to extend the timeout value.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 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

Server command to change/migrate node config from one TSM instance/server to another

When running a TSM environment with multiple servers and TSM instances on each server - and not always having direct access on all clients - it will be useful if a TSM administrator could issue a server command to tell a client to change its confi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

LISTING/PREVIEW of ALL tapes required for a RETRIEVE or a RESTORE

Retrieve and Restore function should have preview option to list the volumes which will be required for the Restore or Retrieve;
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under 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

Replication should not hang if target pool is hung

When replicating to a cloud pool target, if a Disk to Cloud Transfer is hung, then replication hangs. Replication should have a timeout so that it can skip, abort, etc. rather than winding up locks.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Have Spectrum CDM check UUID of the device before removal, thus avoiding the likelyhood of the wrond device being removed

When CDM creates its cleanup data for removing a copy it records the device name it used when the disks were added, for example, /dev/sdn. These device names are not persistent and as CDM does a "echo 1 > /bin/sys/block/sdn/device/delete" to re...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

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