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Storage Protect Family

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    vSnap – zfs enhancements

    vSnaps of SPP are build with zfs. zfs provides management capabilities like enlarging virtual disks, moving data from one virtual disk to another, .... standard LVM stuff vSnap does not support. The only mechanism vSnap support is "add virtual dis...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enhance Spectrum Protect to use Tapefunction Recomended Access Order for repair stg Containerpool from Tape.

    The current support of tapefunction in Protect has more then one gaps in the area off use tape storage. The main concerns are the support of tape in the relation to containerstg. These current designs generate a alongated repair time if we want to...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Improve performance when retrieving partial tapes by using RAO/oRAO on supported tape drives

    IBM Enterprise tape drives (TS1140/3592-E07 onwards) supports Recommended Access Order (RAO). LTO-9 drives supports Open Recommended Acces Order (oRAO). This feature allows a tape drive to advise an application on the optimum retrieval order based...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

    Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Directory-container stgpool protection using cloud-container stgpools

    A directory-container storage pool can not be protected by using a cloud-container storage pool, neither via the PROTECTstgpool nor the PROTECTLOCalstgpools options. It would make sense to allow a directory-container storage pool to be protected t...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Manual client package import for Operation Center client deployment

    Possibility for a manual import of client packages which can be used by the Spectrum Protect Operation Center to update clients.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

    Support for ERP SAP HANA for RHEL 9 on Power LE

    "Currently, only Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1.11 exists, which is more than two years old, and supports RHEL 8 on Power Little Endian. However, support for SAP HANA on RHEL 9 on Power is now necessary."
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Under review

    Operation Center should have the option to use SMTP with authetication method

    The Operation Center deployed in a production environment should have the option to user other SMTP methods to send reports. My client do not allow smtp wthout authentication in production environment.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    Storage Protect Storage Agent should report all issue to the Storage Protect server activitiy log

    We run into a LANfree backup issue. Diagnosing the issue took a long time because the STA was not reporting the drive failures into the SP server activity log. Environment: SP AIX library manager (LM) server 8.1.21.0, SP server name LIBMGR. SP AIX...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Submitted

    Add Webinterface to Debian based Linux.

    A customer have based most of their production on Debian based Linux distros (Debian and Ubuntu) with no GUI in the server install. In the BA client DEB package the WebClient module is missing, the RPM package TIVsm-WEBGUI.x86_64.rpm
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

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