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Storage Protect Family

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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.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP.

Hi Team, Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP. Security concern the AWS services to access via VPC only. Can you please update is IBM working development?. If yes, which version VPC option is available?
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

SP server output file ownership/permissions

SP can output several types of files. For example, DRM recovery plans, backing up devconfig or volhist, select command output, etc. We can already control where to direct the output, i.e., directory structure and filename. Having the ability to al...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Central confuguration of Enableinstrumentation parameters by client option set

ENABLEINSTRUMENTATION is set to "on" by default and can only be turned off locally via option in dsm.sys/dsm.opt. It can be highly advisable to be able to set this option dynamically via client option set option along with instlogmax and instrlogn...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Allow exclude vm disks in the TSM4VE GUI (or select/include only particular disks to be backed up for a VM)

We utilise TSM4VE to take backups of the system disk only of virtual servers like SQL. TSM4VE requires manual entries in the dsm.opt file. This is cumbersome and error prone, and having inclusions for disks available in the GUI would make this pro...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under 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.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

STA path need to update after drive replacement

As an example of TS3200 LTO6 drives which we have in our infra whenever we found any drive issue and after replacement of this drive we are getting new serial number and same we are updating on tsm server with below command upd dr libraryname driv...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Functionality already exists

Allow Spectrum Protect Operations Centre to validate internet access via a proxy

New Feature in Operations center to manage client autodeploy us currently inoperative if the Customer is running a WEB Proxy as the current release 8.1.4 or the OC cannot authenticate itself for web access and hence can't download the required pac...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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