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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect Plus supporting SAP HANA

Spectrum Protect Plus supporting backup and recovery of SAP HANA.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

"Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Enable Storage Protect backup archive client testflag SKIPDATEMISMATCHWARNING for restore and retrieve

In a replication failover scenario, the Storage Protect backup/ archive client is comparing the local stored last backup/ archive date with the date stored on the Storage Protect server. If the local date is older than the date stored on the Stora...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Be able to set default throttle or multiple throttle schedules (business hours or weekends, for example)

This request is to have the ability of creating different throttle schedules, or setting a default throttle.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM4VE UI Support for mulitple Spectrum Protect server instances

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the distribution of VM backup data of 1 datacenter to multiple Spectrum Protect instances. Nowadays VM datacenters have reached sizes which require to have more than 1 Spectrum Protect instance ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect prevent massive deletion from client side

In today's world, more than ever we are tracking any kind of destructive operation. Command approval feature recently added prevent the SP admin to do massive data deletion from server side but we are still lacking the same protection mechanism if...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration