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Storage Protect Family

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Support for snapshot based Hyper-V backup on Windows 2025

Planning of upgrade to Hyper-V on Windows 2025 needs support to protect the data via snapshots.
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review
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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.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP: Get SQL backup amount via REST API / report

I would like to have possibility in SPP to get correct backup amount (frontend size) for each client. Just for clarification frontend amount should be base backup + all transfer sizes before deduplication and compression. Actual build-in reports a...
17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

VSNAP uses NFS in v.3 in VM test restore. How can we force VSNAP to use NFS in v.4

It will improve security, performance improvements, improved stability and scalability. NFS is in v.4 due to this ensure VM restores and other operations are performed in the most efficient and secure manner possible.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Support for native velero v1.14 backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

Currently Velero v1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] and IBM are currently not supporting this. To support this code changes to storage protect object agent side are needed.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Enable replication server in the same AIX cluster as the SP

The client has an SP server mounted on a two-node AIX PowerHA cluster.When there is a failover, the SP service reloads from Node 1 to Node 2.The client backs up OCP (Openshift) with IBM Fusion Backup. To store the data, a Directory-type STGPool ha...
19 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

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