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excluded VMs in unprotected list

The Policy Overview should have a excluded VM resource in my opinion. Annoying having x number of Unprotected VMs reported every day when it is perfectly ok and should not be reported as an error.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP filesystem backup support

SPP Physical server backup server support is required mainly for file server
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - offloading data

The data offload/data copy options currently available in Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.7 do not offer enough flexibility in terms of what data types can be sent to what offload destination (cloud or repository server).If you also want to send SPP da...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add support in SP4VE/vSphere to restore to specific resource pool

Add functionality in Sp4VE/vSphere to restore VM's into specific resource pool in vSphere environment.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

The file cataloging function does not support dynamic disks

Need to have a file cataloging function that support dynamic disk.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Migrating IBM Spectrum Protect Servers from One Operating System to Another

Currently there is support of migrating an IBM Spectrum Protect server from AIX to Linux x86_64 via extractdb/insertdb but not the other way around.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support for ROCE Tape drives in ISP

Hello, If ISP would support ROCE tape drives like TS1155/TS1160 this would deliver following advantages:- ISP could run in a VM and support Tape which is currently not possible with FC Tape drives due to Fibrechannel limitations. - ROCE attached t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> improve vDisk copy delete function and progress

Deleting a vDisk copy in the DRP pool can be a long process if the copy is compressed or deduplicated. Unfortunately, you can not figure out how long it will take. This would require a display in the GUI and a command on the command line. During t...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Enable an Audit trail for VM and applications

Auditing – Enable a Audit trail for VM and applications. Audit trail is for jobs currently and doesn't provide info on object i.e. it says restore job started and completed but doesnt show the VMs recovered. From an auditing point of view customer...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM certificate processing

We have just upgraded CSM from 6.2.0 to 6.2.7 and during that upgrade we found that for the host connections none of them would connect due to a TLS handshake issue (case TS003534863 was opened). The issue was that we needed to import the lpars ce...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration