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Storage Protect Family

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Improve tape restores

We notice that when an VM Incremental Forever backup is to be restored (or mounted) a lot repeated tape mounts are performed and it takes a long time. For instance, if in one of the tapes there is several chunks of data from different backup dates...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE VC Plugin - Scheduled Reporting

Currently within the TSM for VE 6.4 VC Plugin the reporting option allows you to generate a report. I would like the addition of a scheduled report generation option to automatically update and send the content of the report to a distribution list...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Operations Center - Management class - Custom retention time

When defining a management class from the Operations Center, there are only predefined values for the Backups, Keep Extra backups etc.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

VOLHISTORY Maintenance

In reference to the growth of the VOLHISTORY file due to the entries of the new volumes that are created weekly by the FILE-type STGs. Weekly the VOLHISTORY file grows since every week new volumes are generated in the STG of file type, these volum...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC vPlex (VNXe/Unity)

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs and vPlex on VNXe/Unity for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC Compellent

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs. Customer also use vPlex+VNXe for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Changing the mnt directory from root to dedicated file system

If we have a dedicated filesystem, it won't affect the space on root file system on Production servers. In our environment only, we faced the situation like the root file system is full due to this /mnt/spp/vsnapx/fspooly/ directory.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

allow VM exclusion via tagging in Spectrum Protect Plus

please add the capability to exclude VMs based upon specific vSphere Tags, in addition to the ability to include via tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Lock retention on SLAs to keep data from being expired/deleted

Option to define a SLA that will lock the snapshots from deletion until further notice.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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