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Storage Protect Family

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TSM for VE - DP for VMware - Tag support

The ability to exlude or include VMs based on tags, or take tags into consideration somehow. Regardless of what cluster they live in, look at tags to determine what to do.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SPP: way to browse files for restore

Give a way to pull up an index of files that were backed up for a specific VM on a specific day. Basically copy pulling up a point in time restore browser that is in the normal SP client.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support for Ubuntu

Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SPP during Resouce Registration have option to sign to resource group

During customer Meeting, it was asked if during registration of resource they could have the ability to assign resource to a resource group
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

support cephfs with full ACL support

cephfs is a scalable filesystem with full posix campatibility. The need to support this filesystem with full ACL support is needed.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

RHV/oVirt support in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments currently supports VMware and Hyper-V. This is a request for support of RHV/oVirt, as well.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

The Protection summary screen shouldn't show the replica VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus "Protection Summary" screen shows our replica machines that replicated with Recover Point.This is a misleading situation. Both our machine count and the number of machines that are not backed up seem wrong.It needs to be fixed.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Tiring by occupancy

Add the ability to define tiring rule, that takes node occupancy into account.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains, across one or more TSM servers, which would include client related sections such as backup success rate, activity over 24 hours, protected clients and nu...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Client-options to have node backup/store client logfiles in seperate log-filespace on TSM server

It would be nice, if a client node (BA-Client/TDP) automatically could upload logfiles to a seperate filespace on the TSM server at the end of a backup job - so that these logs could be extracted from the server staff and examined in case of any p...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

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