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Storage Protect Family

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Allow IBMi to backup to Spectrum Protect (again)

IBMi used to be able to backup using a TSM client to a TSM/Spectrum Protect Server.With IBM Protectier TS7650 being removed, our IBM i core banking environment no longer has a disk-based BRMS VTL to backup to.We have IBM Spectrum Protect running a...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 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...
almost 5 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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

2TB VHDX size limit in TDP4VE for hyperV

2TB VHDX size limit in TDP4VE for hyperV

Move automatic client deployment from DES to AES authentication

Currently automatic client deployment is only possible if the dsmserv option ALLOWDESAUTH is set to YES. Otherwise the client deployment will fail.Documented here - see Restrictions:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQVQ_8.1.9/srv.r...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Provide AWS image for SPP server

It is currently not possible to deploy the SPP server in AWS. The SPP vSnap can be deployed in AWS, but this require an on-prem SPP server (or a SPP server deployed in VMware Cloud on AWS). An AWS specific SPP AMI image is required.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage as container storage pool.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

TIVsm-WEBGUI REST API documentation

Having installed and configured TIVsm-WEBGUI package the REST API is visable an useable. But no documentation exists.

Ability to delete filespace tied in retention set.

If we set up f.e a retention rule to save a yearly backup for all VMs, we then can not delete any of the VMs filespaces completley. Only if we delete the retentionset and thus deleting all of the yearly backups.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Multiple VMware webclient plug-in registrations in one VCenter server

Customer would like to have the possibility of multiple TSM4VE plug-in registrations on the same vCenter server. In case customers are using more than one Spectrum Protect TDP configurations within one VSphere environment, multiple DP GUI connecti...