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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

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Offer options for excluding the accumulation of some messages related to Safeguarded Copies taken off the GM Secondary in the DSGUI Events

I currently have no visibility on events that occurred more than 3 hours ago on my primary site DS8950F because of a flood of informative " Remote Relationship State Changed" caused by the CGPAUSE needed for the SGC process taking place at seconda...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Externally connect to Management switch to remote support HCI

A customer asks to have the chance to externally connect to the internal switches of Spectum Fusion HCI to remote support the appliance in case Red Hat OCP doesn’t work because two master nodes failed or an administrator blocked the Red Hat OCP ma...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Tag Data Mover available on folder level

Hello Currently it's not possible to configure Data Mover on a folder vmware for all VMs of this one and you have to do it manually one by one. And we have to not forget to do it each time a new vm is placed in this folder. Thanks for adding this ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Safeguard Copy to S3 storage

Allow the ability to schedule safeguard copies off site to S3 storage either on another platform or in the cloud.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Preventive Function to corrupt a volume as flashcopy target if the volume is scsi reserved

If a volume is mounted and used by a OS and V7000 execute flashcopy to the volume as target, the volume is corrupted by occurring inconsistent with filesystem on the OS. The our client strongly request an optional function to prevent the situation...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Currency Support for spectrum protect for Snapshot

We missing the Support of Spectrum Protect for Snapshot on rhel7.6 x86_64 Systems. Today the prereq checker complain that only 7.5 are supported. We use the snapshot function for db2 here.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release

Need support of Power 9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Server and Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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