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Storage Protect Family

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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

TDP for SQL 2012 in Windows 2016

We have 2 Windows Server 2016 with both SQL 2012 and SQL 2016 instances.We need a TDP client version compatible with these three components, so we can backup all Databases in both SQL versions.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Non-SSL adhoc node restoration not possible to initiate

Non-SSL Node adhoc restoration not possible configured to IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.3 We have active directory authentication enabled for our spectrum protect admin session which requires SSL. But all of our nodes are still running in Non-SS...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Support for Windows CSVFS

Support for Windows CSVFS (introduced in Windows 2008-R2).In windows 2012 Microsoft drastically improved the usage cases for Windows CSV where you can use Scale-Out fileservers in a active-active windows failover cluster configuration which give t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 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

Introduce full support for CentOS as a client

Introduce full support for CentOS clients operating with TSM server. CentOS is binary compatible with RHEL and we have few problems with the clients other than getting support for minor bug fixes. Getting support can be difficult, especially when ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Fast End-User Feeling Restore

Today are we trying to get better RTO/RPO with as less money as possible. We are also looking at to backup/restore from a cloud environment. This is always a hazel when RPO vs money. And most of the time does all the end-users only want a couple o...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 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

Faster Single File Restore (TSM for VE) from Tape (Block Level Backup IFE)

With large capacity VM's (several TB's) that also have a requirement for long retention policies, tape is still the most cost effective storage medium.In a commercially driven environment, it is very difficult to convince customers that we require...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Changes for ISP Server/Client

Will there be an Systemd-Daemon file one day for better controlling of the system processes of the ISP software?Because the ISP server and client software haven't yet an native systemd-daemon and are using still the old SysV-Init-Daemon files whic...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration