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Storage Protect Family

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    Support for Ubuntu 22.04

    As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Non-blocking Storage Protect server audit library

    Today, when a Storage Protect server requires to run AUDIT LIBRARY on a SCSI library, all Storage Protect server activities on that SCSI library needs to be stopped. Means, processes and sessions already using the SCSI library its tape drives need...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    To use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication as primary storage pools.

    We want to use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication, as similar as for DEFINE STGPOOL (Define a retention storage pool) with cloud device class, but for normal primary stgpool. Compression and encryption should be possible, but wi...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    TDP support for Exchange SE

    Latest Version TDP 8.1.21 only supports up to Exchange 2016/2019, which is going end-of-life 14. Oct 2025.
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

    Configuration: Replica source Storage is container pool only Copy pool exist on tape Replica target Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days Copy pool exist on tape Scenario When the source detects a bad file/object with a...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

    We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    TDP support for SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 8 for SLES on Power

    TDP for ERP 8.1.11 supports only SAP HANA 2.0 SPS7. Support for SPS8 needed, which is availible since Nov 2024.
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Submitted

    Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

    When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted
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    Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

    Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

    Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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