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ISP DP for SQL Powershell in AlwaysON Environment / restore Script

This Script (Command Line Interface) allows us to do faster restore compare to the Graphical User Interface. MMC GUI has long wait time when restore inactive backup's as described in the case (TS004928519). In a case of ransomware we can't accept ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

RMAN plugin required

We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Rolling upgrades of space management client.

When upgrading the space management client, event if there are multiple HSM nodes, it is required to disable HSM globally while space management and backup-archive clients and API are removed and reinstalled on all nodes. For clusters with multipl...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

move stgpooldir command

I'd like to se a command likemove stgpooldir <oldstgpooldir> <newstgpooldir>that move all containers in one stgpooldir to another automatiacally and in the background.or change the move container command to accept wildcard and a maxnum...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP support for Tanzu environments

backup/restore support for K8s running on Tanzu (PVC and etcd etc.) with SPP
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Node replication based on managementclass or storagepool

Currently node replication can only be issued on a node/filespace basis and backup/archive data. A big global bank has the requirement to replicate all data cross country which are older than 5 years. The data can't be distinguished by filespace o...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8 Not under consideration

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