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Storage Protect Family

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ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus supporting SAP HANA

Spectrum Protect Plus supporting backup and recovery of SAP HANA.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Update vSnaps over SPP GUI / Dashboard

We would like to be able to update one or more vSnaps through the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI / Dashboard.Currently we have to update the vSnaps manually via the cli on the vSnap server itself.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Introduce support for AD objects & containers

Introduce support for AD objects & containers
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect prevent massive deletion from client side

In today's world, more than ever we are tracking any kind of destructive operation. Command approval feature recently added prevent the SP admin to do massive data deletion from server side but we are still lacking the same protection mechanism if...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 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 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

cert_distribute.sh should allow customers to input path to dsmcert.kdb file

In the current cert_distribute.sh implementations as level 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 it is not possible to specify the path to the dsmcert.kdb file. The cert_distribute.sh script has a logic searching for the dsmcert.kdb file (function getWindowsCertKDBPa...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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