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    Spectrum Protect Plus support MariaDB

    Important pubic sector in Spain (Andalucia sub-region) has decided to use "Maria DB" as new Data Base (replacing Oracle).Some customers in that public sector loves SPP for future Containers, VMs and Aplication Data Protection but they really need ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Data Protect as part of IBM Storage Defender and improvement for cluster-failover

    Assume there are two Data Protect Clusters in metro-distance (<30km). Both clusters are loosely coupled only. Just backup data itself are mirrored asynchronously, but no meta-data. What are the issues with that? As a consequence, in case of a f...
    over 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Spectrum Protect Plus support for 3rd party software installation for monitoring/automation software

    ISP+ Produkt support is needed for the OVA and RHEL deployment, to install 3rd Party monitoring and automation software at the ISPP vSnap and ISPP operatingsystem layer. The ISP+ Bluprint documentation explicitly dismiss the installation for 3rd p...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add FIPS compliance to the tape library to enable Key Manager integration with the IBM Guardium product.

    Guardium uses FIPS by default. Without FIPS compliance the Diamondback library acts as a lowest common denominator for Guardium forcibly weakening the security stance of all products using the same Guardium instance e.g. Spectrum Scale. A minimum ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 should have dual cec to eliminate single points of failure

    TS7700 clusters have a single power series cec which requires outages to update microcode. Installing a second TS7700 shouldn't be the only option for higher availability of a TS7700. Enhance design to use dual cecs.
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    CES Support for L3 BGP Network

    Currently CES only supports Layer 2 networks where there is a specific subnet such as 192.168.20.0/24 where the virtual IP (VIP) addresses for CES would get assigned to an interface such as eth0 on a node. This does NOT work with Layer 3 networks ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Allowing multiple node to store data

    Hello! Since we are using SPVE to back up our VMware servers, all of the VMs are backed up into a single node on the Storage Prottect Server. For an extra layer of security, we've enabled the node replication on this node to send the data to AWS u...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    SPP M365 Backup via Proxy

    Several clients are enforcing the usage of a client provided HTTP/HTTPS proxy server to grant systems access to the Internet. In such case the IP network traffic is not routed through the default gateway. That is the reason why a client proxy need...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Include the automatic Refresh States after an event "Hardware connection.... is now accessible (IWNH1038I)

    After a hardware error in one of the device server of the Storage, CSM reported a communication errors and changed the replication sessions from Normal to Severe. However, for the Hardware Storage side, there was no replication impact, as the othe...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Is a defect

    Reclaim database space

    I know that Storage Protect automatically does some database maintenance operations, such as reorganization. It would also be useful do do some equivalent of db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE LARGESPACE1 REDUCE MAX" (and/or the same for other tablespaces), to...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

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