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Support for Mac El Capitan (OSX 10.11.x)

The latest Mac release will be installed on many if not all new Mac endpoint devices. Further, many existing devices currently running Mac Yosemite (OSX 10.10) will upgrade to this latest OS release shortly. We have over 1,000 Mac client accounts,...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

Improve Logical Block Protection performance by using faster CRC implementation

The Logical Block Protection (LBP) feature in Spectrum Protect (TSM) is currently limiting performance when used with current generation tape drives. In production we see around 360 MB/s without LBP enabled, degrading to around 200 MB/s with LBP e...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Platform migration between same endians w/o. export/import

The only supported method for platform migration is via export/import of data, which (despite that it is really time consuming and tedious) is practically not possible in some circumstances, like when the customer uses a huge amount of WORM media,...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

export to tape from directory-container storage pools.

I would like to see an export function that enables me to export to tape from directory-container storage pools. Export to tape is only possible from a sequential pool now days, but I would like to do it from container storage.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 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...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Retrule exclude decommission vm filespaces

We make every first sunday a retset over all vm and keep them for 3 month. Simply define an retrule with an generic filter to catch all vm. All VM are under node SUVA_SWWVC62 and the Filter is SUVA_SWWVC62:* When we decommission an vm this vm will...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Backup of NSX-T network interfaces in SP for VE

Spectrum Protect for VE needs to include VMware NSX virtual networking devices in the backups of the VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infrastructure for VMware, which is configured via tagging of virtual NIC devices to a VM.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

mirror storage pool

For one storage pool to be an exact replica of another pool and be equivalent in every way, to the extend that if one pool becomes unavailable all activity continues on the remaining pool, including write activity. This would also involve changing...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Exclude Single Disks during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of a virtual machine. This enhancement will result in tremendous data reduction.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Delivered

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