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VMware Linux File-Level Restore Using Active Directory Domain Login ID

VMware Linux File-Level Restores does not allow for Microsoft Active Directory Domain based User Logins with Multifactor Authentication.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM Auto-Deploy/OC and roadmap for ability to Custom Install Package

We are looking for the ability to add a custom installable component like "TSM Web Client" to an auto-deploy upgrade.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multipile tags created via single REST API request

Currently, tags must be created one by one using a POST request to spectrum discover. Attempting to send a list of tags in JSON like: [ { "tag" : "test1" , "type" : "Characteristics" , "value" : "[ \" True \" , \" False \" ]" } , { "tag" : "test2"...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

Backup VM process uses too much memory

The IFINCR backup VM job uses too much memory when processing guests especially in the initial phase when querying for previous backups images stored on the Spectrum Protect server.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

send encrypted backups through tdpve iffull/ifincr method

send tdpve client backups with method iffull and ifincr encrypted to server as it was with methods full and incr before
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Support for vmware snapshot larger than 2 TB

vmware 5.5 supports disks larger than 2 TB but we are not able to make snapshots with TSM4VE
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Alter SGC volume threshold percentage via DSCLI

Currently 85% is the default set in IBM DS8k for SGC volumes threshold. To modify this percentage and to get alerting much earlier, this can be done only by IBM DS8K support team by modifying structure csSfgContNotifThreshold. If the option is ava...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Migrate config node without reboot.

Currently the only way to move the config node, it to reboot nodes. This seems to be overkill. There are times that it would be handy to migrate the config node without rebooting nodes
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Events and reports from the IBM Spectrum Protect from VE to the Operation Center.

Centralize the possibility to view from the IBM Spectrum Protect Operational Center all the events generated by the IBM Spectrum Protect for VE and also the creation, execution and visualization of the IBM Spectrum Protect VE reports from the Oper...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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