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IBM Spetcrum Protect or SPP cross-hypervisor restore for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure)

Cross-hypervisor restore feature for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure) is a feature already supported in competitor solutions ie Commvault .
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

MASTEROVERWRITE option that prevents append to an existing file or volume

There exists a need in some environments to have a LWORM or RMM option that specifies that once a dataset is initially written no further writes are allowed to the tape volume. Either an enhancement to LWORM with an option that limits Write Mount ...
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Provide SPP GUI Server for more platforms than VMWare and Hyper-V

The central Spectrum Protect Plus management server can be deployed as a virtual machine on VMWare or Hyper-V. But there are customers that want to protect workloads like Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, DB2, Mongo DB etc. with Spectrum Protect Plus, wh...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add http/https proxy support to Spectrum Protect Server (cloud storage pools)

Spectrum Protect Server don't have the option to configure a http/https proxy to communicate to internet. When a cloud storage pool is configured, the server must to communicate with the cloud provider directly.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

TSM does not start Migrations properly

TSM-Server does not start any new Migrations if there is still 1 Migration running from the previous "reaching HiMig".Example1. HiMig reached = 8 migrations started for diskpool2. Migrations running an decreasing utilisation of pool3. LoMig reache...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance

We need options to On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance.Currently we need to select one by one database to on-demand backup.Best way is to have the 2 options, select one database or all of an instance.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Multisite Connect

When backing up a big VMware environment it is necessary that the customer can select multiple vCenters as source and multiple Spectrum Protect Servers as Backup destination.Enable management of data protection for multiple vCenters from a single ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Additional Filter Option for Storage Insights under RC Relationships.

When creating a automated report within SI, the section under remote copy / Remote Copy Relationships, I need a filter option to show and report on only RC Relationships that is not part of any RC Groups. The aim of this report is to report on RC ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Disable the necessary SMB V1 to install product of TSM throught Installation Manager

Install Tivoli Storage Manager products using the Installation Manager it is necessary to have enable the SMB1 protocol.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Cloud Containers (such as COS/Cleversafe) from Linux on Power

Currently we have clients moving from old Power 7 boxes to new Power 8 boxes who want to start a new TSM server on Linux In addition clients are keen on COS/Cleversafe for more than just TSM. The lack of Cloud Container support from Linux on Power...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration