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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Backup of an Individual VM in an SLA Policy

Customer requires the ability to backup an individual VM in an SLA.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

snapdiff option for clustered ontap (netapp)

HelloWe have new Netapp filers in prodcution since 2 months and these use the new clustered ontap version (8.2). I have opened a PMR because the snapdiff option didn't work on these filers and the support told me that snapdiff was only possible on...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 11 Delivered

Allow IBMi to backup to Spectrum Protect (again)

IBMi used to be able to backup using a TSM client to a TSM/Spectrum Protect Server.With IBM Protectier TS7650 being removed, our IBM i core banking environment no longer has a disk-based BRMS VTL to backup to.We have IBM Spectrum Protect running a...

Enhanced VM excludes for TSM for VE

Enhancement to TSM for VE set up to allow an include/exclude file for selective exclusion / inclusion of VMs from backup (similar to BAClient model).
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 6 Delivered

Add decomission node command to TSM

An ability to put a node into 'decomissioned' mode, so that it can locked and cannot perform any more backups but is still available for restore. At the same time the node data can be scheduled for deletion after a period of days that is compliant...
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 11 Delivered

Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...

Ability to schedule maintenance policy

Allow user to modify the time at which the maintenance policy will be started. An acceptable workaround would be to change the start time via a REST API call.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Support of exceeding 2TB VMDK backup

Each individual VMDK involved in a backup operation cannot exceed2 TB on TSM for VE V7.1. Request for support of exceeding 2TB VMDK backup. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.itsm.ve.inst.doc/r_ve_hwreqs.html?resultof=%22...

TSM4VE - Easier include/exclude of harddisks for a VM and integration of that in graphical interfaces

Include/Exclude for VM harddisks is made within client option file only, hence the direct usage and visibility in any graphical interface is not given. The user cannot choose within the graphical interfaces which harddisks to include (i.e. during ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Allow SPP catalog restores from COS or SP

Spectrum Protect Plus stores the metadata information in a catalog which can be backed up to a vSnap repository. This information can not be stored on COS or an ISP server. This would end up in non-discoverable information in the event of the whol...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered