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Storage Protect Family

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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.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SPP dashboard to marked out following the RBAC settings

In the Dashboard page, we saw the coverage. Although some users are scoped using RBAC functionality, the coverage is not updated in this regard.Same about the policy preview Is there a way to show the user his own perimeter? for exemple DBA team s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More control over "disable sessions" for client nodes

Sometimes it may be necessary to prevent clients from connecting to a Spectrum Protect Server to perform backups. Reasons for this can be, for example, maintenance work on the Spectrum Protect Server, where access to the storage pool is not given....
over 2 years 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.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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

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

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

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