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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Space Management (HSM) for ppc (power) Linux

With the evolution of Spectrum Scale (esp. ESS) running on our ppc Hardware on Linux it is required to have this capability to reduce the number of objects to manage (i.e. an extra AIX or x86 system to handle the HSM migration out of ESS or other ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

vSnap Failover Functionality

Currently, vSnap servers do not have integrated failover functionality. This means if a vSnap is not available, and a backup runs pointing to this vSnap, backup will fail. Automatic failover should happen if a vSnap is not available. Backup then s...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Introduce Data mobility - Ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another

Introduce Data mobility i.e. the ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another.This is so data can be easily managed and vSnap servers retired and added in an easier fashion
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Verify Management Class Contraints on Node Migration

When moving/migrating a TSM node from one TSM domain to another, and in the target TSM domain the management class used in the source does not exist in its policiy definitions, the default management class is used. The fall back to the default man...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

IBM SPP: Allow VADP/VSNAP deployment with SSH keys instead of username/password

Hello, VADP and VSNAP Deployment require that you enter a OS username and password for ssh communication. Username and password authentication is not very secure therefore any sane/larger customer will only allow ssh-keys for authentication. Pleas...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should be UNCHECKED by default.

The Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should remain unchecked as a default setting for normal use.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect - Copy Retention Sets to Azure Archive Layer

Customer is looking to use the Copy Retention Sets to Cloud as introduced in 8.1.13. They have an existing storage agreement with Azure and so will be using this. Noted that the release includes support for Archive Storage in both AWS and IBM Clou...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

SPP: Implement link feature for jobs

Currently SPP only offers a job scheduling by time. To leverage the backup (and replication) window at a maximum, it would be great to have a "link feature" for jobs.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Rolling upgrades of space management client.

When upgrading the space management client, event if there are multiple HSM nodes, it is required to disable HSM globally while space management and backup-archive clients and API are removed and reinstalled on all nodes. For clusters with multipl...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Progress bar for Node Replication

My customer needs a progress indicator, how much data have already been replicated. At the moment, there is no progress bar in the Operations Center ? There are the PMRs: TS001082298, TS000931890, TS000896249
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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