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Storage Protect Family

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    ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

    We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    "Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

    Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Replication Job shows as "Error" if no data is there to process

    When using the replication of vSnap backup storage data and no "new" backup data is available in the source vSnap, SPP identifies the replication job as "Error" which is not true.In fact, just no new data is available in the source vSnap server. S...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Enable selective VMDK based restore for "Production Restore (Disk Replace)"

    Starting with version 10.1.7 it is possible to restore only the VMDK's of a VM without restoring the configuration data of the VM.This restore mode is named "Production Restore (Disk Replace)". This restore mode does a restore of all VMDK's of a V...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for Microsoft Server 2025 - WinGet

    The IBM Storage Protect BA Client for Windows uses a complex installation process. spinstall.exe handles C++ package installation, language-specific MST files, and a file-by-file structure. This creates problems for mass deployment on Windows Serv...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

    Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus Direct Offload to Spectrum Protect

    Enable the direct offload to Spectrum Protect without the requirement to have a copy of the data offloaded in the vSnap.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Support for ERP SAP HANA for RHEL 9 on Power LE

    "Currently, only Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1.11 exists, which is more than two years old, and supports RHEL 8 on Power Little Endian. However, support for SAP HANA on RHEL 9 on Power is now necessary."
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Under review

    Automate scan and fix of "unavailable" containers for Spectrum Protect servers

    Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot ----------------------...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

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