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Spectrum Protect Server in Oracle Cloud

Spectrum Protect Linux Server in Oracle Cloud
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TDP VMware INSTANT VM Rostore of ESX with EMC Multipathing

The current setup of the TDP Vmware IBM Spectrum Protect V 8.1.2.0 ,Instant restore works for iscsi goes through the NMP, but the original datastore is using EMC powerpath, which is no-native multipathing, We need the enhancement for the IBM Spect...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Include NAS Backups statistics in the data collection of Monitoring and Reporting.

Currently, the results from NAS Backups (NDMP) stored in the summary table is not collected in the WAREHOUS database. As such, it's also not possible to produce any custom reports on NAS Backups. Collecting the rows from the summary table where ac...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Backup and Restore Storage Pool by using TSM Storage Agent

Currently Backup and Restore storage pool can only be done by TSM Server. Meanwhile there are many TSM Storage Agents deployed on the environment which are idle during non backup window. Backup data is always getting bigger, and increasing the TSM...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

VSS application protection option to TSMVE GUI

Customers of ours find it very complicated to protect VM's with VSS application protection-Almost everything has been integrated into the VE GUI, but to backup SQL/Exchange VM, you have to go to the OPT file and add INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS option, and in...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

GUI for TDP ORACLE backup and restore

have a GUI for ORACLE TDP RMAN backups.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE vmcli

I want to run a TSM for VE vmcli backup using an external scheduler (ControlM) so I can chain backups, dedupe's, reclaims, node replications, etc together.The backup command pretty much forces me to use the -I and specify a file with vmname: in it...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM does not allow versioning of file-attributes only

TSM does not offer any possibility to do a backup with version control for only(!) the standard UNIX-file-permissions. In fact, TSM does not allow to backup the file-perms only, with or without versioning.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment support availability for vSphere 6.7

When wil be available support for vsèphere vcenter 6.7 ? vCenter plugin is not working on version 6.7
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add tdp client for MSSQL on linux

TDP for MSSQL needed on Linux systems
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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