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    Hard to find target host/cluster for VM restore when many hosts/clusters available

    The restore of a VM to an alternate host becomes very problematic when many hosts are available. The customer I am working with has an environment that creates a list page count of over 800 in the restore UI of SPP. It won't be possible to find th...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Allow a global exclude for a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

    Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    FlashCopy Manager - enable higher values for SVC_COPY_RATE

    Please increase possible values for parameter SVC_COPY_RATE to numbers higher than 100.
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    Candidate selection for sparenodes in standard stretched clusters

    Add functionality to be able to specify what nodes a spare node is protecting in "standard" topology, either through the use of site_id or manually entered properties on the nodes. Site id's are used when selecting spare node when running "stretch...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Create 'Retention set on Tape' for SQL and DB2

    Creating Retention sets on tape are only possible for TDP Vmware/Hyper-V and BAclient; we would like the capability to be extended to DB2 and SQL as well. ANR1017E UPDATE RETRULE: File space SQLREP\SQL02\meta\0000 that belongs to node SQL01N1_SQL ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    SP SERVER/OP CENTER: FUNCTION TO CONTROL/HANDLE CLIENT FILE BACKUP CONFIGURATION DIRECTLY FROM SERVER

    - Develop function to integrate Operations Center with SP Server with the ability to configure and handle the client host backup remotely.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux).

    Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux). As stated in TS003354444 it does not work though we follow the instructions in "https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/c_clu...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly

    Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly Currently we need to create with multiple SLA for different schedule of daily, weekly, monthly.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Temporarily suspend deactivation and expiration of backup data.

    We have received a number of customer requests, to temporarily suspend deactivation and deletion of backups due to retention policies. Often happens during and after ransomware attacks, where the customer have a temporary need for retaining deacti...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    TSM &HSM independently backup data & metadata

    It is about making TSM (SpectrumProtect) and HSM ready to deal with large number of files and huge data pods by doing backup of data independently from meta data.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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