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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

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery for linux mountproxies
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect/TSM NDMP Support for Fujitsu ETERNUS AX/HX series

We would like to see the ETERNUS AX/HX series added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using Spectrum Protect/TSM and NDMP. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/storage/all-flash-arrays/ax.htmlhttps://ww...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future 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.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

IBM SPP Should keep job logs for restores longer

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus keeps job logs for restores only 3 days. This is not sufficient for historical reporting purposes. The retention of job logs, including those for restore operations should be user-configurable, and the default should be s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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

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.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under 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
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SP4VE FLR - interaction with CyberArk API for

Today, security is in the center of backup and even more recovery procedure. My customer, big insurance is asking that SP4VE is more integrated with security components and external authentication mechanism.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration