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Storage Protect Family

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BackupSet tape Migration

We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add search option to backup VMs.

Adding option to search for VM's instead of opening each and every ESXI in order to find our VM.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for VE-Remove 8 TB VMDK snapshot backup Restriction or Extend snapshot backup of VMDK from 8TB to 64 TB

We would like to have IBM enhance IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments product and remove this restriction/limitation to fail the snapshot backup of VMDK which is grater then 8 TB in size. We would like to have IBM remove this limitation/...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

backup hyper-v 2012 the backup is work but we have error 12

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 i want to backup only two vritual machines with linux...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add maximum parallel sessions for NDMP backups

Limit the number of parallel backup sessions for NDMP backups of NetApp (or any other) NAS node.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Well-known tcp ports are run out by TIME_WAIT state if recalls are distributed to cluster nodes

Product: IBM Spectrum Protect for Space ManagementActor: User needs improvement of TCP port usage The product is bundled in our product IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition for space management of IBM Spectrum Scale. Description: In multi-nodes...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Future consideration

Loss of change block tracking files

Implement a mechanism allowing in the event of loss or corruption of CBT files not to redo a full backup.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Integrity control for stored datas on vsnap

Set up an integrity check to validate that the data that was copied to the vsnap server are valid.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.

Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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