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Storage Protect Family

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TSM for VE - Enhancement to allow Graceful or Forceful cancellation of a running VE Backup Schedule

Freddie Mac is a very strong user of TSM for VE, protecting over 4000 VMs in their environment using TSM for VE 7.1.4 version currently in production. They need more granular control over Running VE Schedules to be able to stop them either gracefu...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Exchange 2010 Single Item Recovery from the Exchange mailbox database

We are using Spectrum Protect Server: Spectrum Protect Server EE Version 7.1.8.1 OS Version Windows 2012 R2 Standard Exchange Server / Client Side: BA Client Version 7.1.1 FlashCopy Manager for Exchange Version: 4.1.1.0 TDP for Mail Version 7.1.1 ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Add a VM replication module (for BCP/BRP/DRP)

this new module would copy x vms towards another Vcenter. instead of configuring a copy towards a vsnap and define severals versions (retention), this new feature would copy vms toward another ESX, datastore (on another vcenter) with a SLA with re...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Encrypt CREDentialsfile

IBM really? stores credentials in plain text. Does your policy allow this?
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Schedule policy/job to execute every 4th saturday of the month

Policy can be set to start on the day of the month (1st, 2nd,...) and can be set to start at Saturday but repeat it every 4 weeks, because some months have 5 weeks it's not acceptable. We need it to be set(because of load) every 4th saturday of th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP support for Cloud applications

Customers start asking for data protection of cloud applications to a larger extent.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Log backup of SQL system databases

Log backup of SQL system databases should be supported in Spectrum Protect Plus
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Oracle RAC One Node with Spectrum Protect Plus

We need a protection with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration with 2 servers nodes and differents db instances in the both nodes. In the Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.x fail applications inventory with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Progression of manual backup/restore in DP for Exchange GUI (Task Details)

We have had several customers complain that "Task Details" in DP for Exchange GUI are not updated until a task finishes.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

NDMP to TSM-Server (NAS filer to server) - enable simultaneous write

NDMP data transfers from NSeries (Netapp) Filers over TCP/IP (NAS to TSM Server Storage) currently does not support simultaneous write into primary and copy storage pools. It seems that the autocopy function is ignoring NDMP/TCP-IP data during ing...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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