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Spectrum Protect for VE - Hyper-V, Change default restore location in MMC

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment - Hyper-V v8.1.8 on Hyper-V 2016: Is it possible to change the default restore location inside the MMC GUI when doing a Virtual Maschine Restore? If yes, how? Right now the default location (C:\ProgramData\...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

2 TB limit for VMware VMDK file backup

VMDK files with 2 TB or more cannot be backed up by the TSM client. The limit seems to be hardcoded. When will TSM support VMDK files with 2 TB or more?
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Raising iSER sessions to 1024 per node

PayPal/GoPay purchased some 9200s for a large VMware environment with iSER connectivity, and we hit the 256 session limitation per controller. We desperately need to increase the iSer sessions from 256 to 1024 per controller. The iSER cards are co...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Report to show backup storage by SLA

Report to show backup storage by SLA will helps us quickly check which SLA is taking up the most backup data
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Option Needed to Disable Implicit WRITE_ACL Permission for Owner on NFSv4 ACLs

According to https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_5.1.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r10.doc/bl1adm_admglnv4.htm Spectrum Scale grants implicit WRITE_ACL permission to the owner of files and directories in conflict with the NFSv4 specifi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Support DELL ECS and other for S3 lock container

Give the Avaibility to add an S3 lock container on a Dell ECS solution to improve the security. Actually it's just possible to lock the data on COS or AWS.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Require HTTPS for Spectrum Protect Web Client

Currently only HTTP works when using the Backup-Archive Web Client. US Bancorp requires this communication to be transmitted over HTTPS due to Federal audit requirements. We know that the data is not sent in clear text, but the auditors don't, so ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Fix ANS1715E different virtual machine UUID error message

When backing up a virtual machine for which the UUID has changed, the following error is thrown:ANS4308E Full VM backup of 'Hyper-V' Virtual Machine 'WS50115' failed with RC=4379 mode=Incremental Forever - Incremental, target node name='CLSIM261_H...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Protect virtual machines with shared virtual harddisks (shared VHDX or VHDSet)

We rely heavily on guest clustering for high availability. Virtualization delivers availability at the server level, but not at the application level. If a machine goes down unexpectedly, Hyper-V will bring it up on another Hyper-V host, but from ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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