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Storage Protect Family

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Azure AVS support for Spectrum Protect for VE and SPP

The client of a BP would like to continue using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments as they migrate their vmware farm to Microsoft Azure AVS.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

SP Operations Center group assign Alerts

Add a functionality to manage (assign and close) Alerts faster and in groups (bulk selections) in the Spectrum Protect Operations Center. Or make the assignment drop-down menu part of each alert so that it's easier to assign.Please design the OC i...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Fastback-TSM integration wizard. Multiple TSM nodename definition required to achieve different data retentions

It is essentially not a problem with the operation of Fastback. The problem is in the integration between Fastback and TSM. We have the TSM admin centre set up to access the TSM server and the fastback server. I have been using the integration wiz...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus SQL Log backups not snapshotted replicated until DB backups initiated

SQL Log backups in SPP in CIFS share are not snapshotted until the next DB backup and its subsequent snapshot. Similarly, SQL log backup snapshots are only replicated when the SQL DB backup snapshot replication is scheduled.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus backups with VMware Storage DRS

Client has VMware Storage DRS enabled. Spectrum Protect Plus checks the previous location of the VM on the datastore. If it has been moved as a result of DRS, it performs a full base backup.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Oracle 18c support SP 4 DB's

I have a client who is installing Oracle 18c now and have a need for backups They have used Spectrum Protect in the past and want to continue to do so
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients

Allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients. It would allow automatic expiration of older versions. This would help implementing smooth S3 backup solutions for many modern "cloud" databases and similar tools, like Postgres, MongoDB, Hashico...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

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

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