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Policy Overview

Protection by policy shows number of VMs protected, but doesn't allow further investigation. Should be able to click on policy and see associated VMs.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide a direct download (one time or multi-use) link for Data Collector

Downloading the Data collector on a workstation and then uploading it to a Linux/AIX/Windows machine is clunky and in some cases slow. Providing a direct link to use native (CURL/WGET/etc.) mechanisms for download directly on the end system would ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Report Enhancement giving more detailed into

I believe a report is neaded the gives more details. This is the info that I would like to see in a single report:1. The full path to the VM that is displayed under the "Search for..." box in SPP panels such as: Manage Protection - Virtual Systems...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More flexible VMTAG processing

Version 7.1.6 gave us the possibility to use VMware TAGs to help control the exclusion of a VM and the Spectrum Protect (TSM) management class a VM should use. Even if this is a great improvement, I think that it could easily be extended to give u...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add Dynamic Volume Expansion capability

Dynamic volume expansion requires many manual steps when the volume(s) to be expanded are in a copy services relationship. CSM has all the information necessary to facilitate this process for a client. My client requests that CSM handle the end to...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Inherited VM options on a per backup policy level

Backup policies defined on a per tag basis are allowed to inherit the parent options associated with the tag (i.e. defining proxy server, snapshot retries, application/filesystem consistency, etc.). As these options get defined for a single tag, t...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM for VE - File-level restore process similar to TSM BA GUI

In a virtual environment, be able to execute file-level restore to alternate location using a backup operator account and keeping the original Windows folders/files permissions. This process would be similar to TSM BA client restore process, that ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Insights NAME field to reflect HMC NAME field or add it into Insights

It has come to our attention that the NAME field within Insights is actually a reference to the VOLSER from the HMC system. This i s normally not a problem, except on a multi-client box where we put the client name/code in the NAME Field. Without ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SPVE vCenter Backup Failure resolution

We are using SPVE to backup vCenter appliances. We frequently get timeout errors when creating snapshot. Would like some facility to resolve this issue, possibly an option to extend the timeout value.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Need to be able to move data between container pools

Need to have the ability to move data between container pools as needed. This includes: Directory to DirectoryCloud to CloudCloud to Directory
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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