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Storage Protect Family

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    Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

    Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect faster backup and restore for Filer

    Spectrum Protect's Backup by General Storage's MAGS parallelizes the process of checking objects for changes. As a result, this time-consuming part of the backup on file servers is massively accelerated.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    installation image for physical vSnap servers

    IBM provides vsnap server OVAs für virtualized vsnap servers.In some customer situations it would be helpful to have also a fully supported installation image for physical vsnap servers including update images.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

    Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

    Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

    Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    AWS EC2 Snapshot replication and copy

    Allow an AWS EC2 snapshot to be ingested by SPP's repository and the ability of creating other copies, using replication and copy/offload features.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Opject Agent support for AIX

    Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    TSM4VE lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way.

    TSM4VE seems to lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way. Competitive software, like Quest (formerly VizionCore) vRanger Pro and Veeam Backup & Replication does have stated support for multiple vCenters. It ...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8 Not under consideration

    Support reversal of roles of replication servers which have Retention Sets

    If you have retention sets on either a source or target replication server, you cannot reverse the roles of the replication servers; that is, you cannot make the source server the target server and vice versa. If you do so, data in retention sets ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Force Cancel Sessions and Processes

    We need to be able to force cancel sessions and processes on the TSM server. This is a must have.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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