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    IBM Storage Protect Plus Future Version can be able to Backup and Restore VM on cross Hypervisor platform as like Hyper-V to VMware to Hyper-V.

    It can be useful a VM can be restore without require any connectors or convertors to change the VM disks from one hypervisor to another hypervisor and to reduce more admin tasks. In our environment we have IBM SP and SPP to compete with other Back...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Add "real" system serial to pull down menu so it can be displayed along with the Node ID.

    Please add the "real" system serial (78-XXXXX) as an option in the pull down menu of the Resource Tab listing all of the installed system.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    More detailed warning message

    We had a data loss on our SPP infra, when administrator removed vSnap server. From operational point of view, issue is clear human error, but we recommend to use more efficient warning message than the one curently used (for example RED instead of...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1

    MGM RPO graphs embedded in CSM GUI

    We have 19 x DS8000 MGM sessions. All of them are managed by CSM.We need a graph (one for each MGM session) ,embedded in CSM GUI, with RPO behaviour over time.We are an outsourcer for banks and customers are asking us to certify the RPO over the t...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 5 Planned for future release

    Support CEPH as S3 target on "cloud storage tier"

    IBM is pursuing CEPH as one of the S3 solutions ( additional to IBM COS) We are wondering if we could certify CEPH S3 interface as TS7700 offload target for TS7770C so we have the chance to use IBM COS or CEPH when deploying IBM S3 solutions onprem
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Scheduled reports. Save to local path in SPP

    Hi.Regarding how to schedule a report to NOT use smtp server due to DMZ and sectret networks. We are handling SPP in DMZ and secret networks where there is no smpt server allowed. How can we save scheduled reports to a local path?For us this is im...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    .NET Wrapper for TSM API

    A mono-project (http://www.mono-project.com/) wrapper for the TSM API is desirable, in order to ease development of utilities and add-ons to the TSM Server
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Add wait=yes to audit command

    We would like to have a "wait=yes" option to the audit volume command. I think this should be done since audit container has this option.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Red Hat Pacemaker Cluster Services support with IBM Spectrum Protect

    IBM Services have many enterprise customers with regulatory requirements that requires high availability (HA) on all IBM Spectrum Protect servers that handle critical data both at on-premise data center as remote data centers. In cases where HA is...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus backup support for VMWare Tanzu TKG container environment

    An important italian customer with a large SP and SPP installation has already implemented OpenShift backup with SPP. He has also container environments based on VMWare Tanzu TKG and he needs to protect such environment. My request is about the su...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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