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Storage Protect Family

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can not use Spectrum protect over san in ERP Database

We was working with AIX os and use Spectrum protect to backup the ERP Database on it using Oversan We moved the production server to SUSE enterprise 15 , but now the problem as in the case that over san is not supported with suse 15, and it is urg...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP FOR PROTECT PLUS

One of the most asked feature by business partners and customers is support of Active Directory backup and granular recovery of AD with Protect Plus. Almost every our competitor has AD backup granular recovery of its objects.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

User/owner name should be again a part of the backup information (ISP Server Database table backups/archives column “owner”)

After upgrading the ISP Client from 7.1.x to Version 8.1.8, the configuration on the DB2 Server is not compatible anymore.The instance owner as user is not presented on the Spectrum protect server backup/archive table(s) anymore and we would need ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Integrate Spectrum Protect authentication with existing accounts in LDAP servers not AD (like Tivoli Directory Server)

Today, with Spectrum Protect, if we are using LDAP servers like Tivoli Directory Server, SP will create 2 OU's: Administrators and Nodes and also create CN's of each Administrator ID under it. It will only authenticate users that are listed in the...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Support for vCloud Director

We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

SPP Migrate Offloaded Data between different Cloud Providers

Spectrum Protect Plus should provide a functionality to migrate offloaded backups between cloud providers.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Support Incremental Backup of Exchange DBs on ReFS

Customer has recently replaced Commvault with IBM SPP. Only Full Exchange backups are working as the customer is using ReFS.Also, since SPP is using VSS of the Exchange Server, backup of the 2nd Exchange DB cannot be started unless the backup of f...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Improve performance when retrieving partial tapes by using RAO/oRAO on supported tape drives

IBM Enterprise tape drives (TS1140/3592-E07 onwards) supports Recommended Access Order (RAO). LTO-9 drives supports Open Recommended Acces Order (oRAO). This feature allows a tape drive to advise an application on the optimum retrieval order based...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Directory-container stgpool protection using cloud-container stgpools

A directory-container storage pool can not be protected by using a cloud-container storage pool, neither via the PROTECTstgpool nor the PROTECTLOCalstgpools options. It would make sense to allow a directory-container storage pool to be protected t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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