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Storage Protect Family

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    need ability to view the dsm.opt file on a windows system and be able to add/subtract entries from the TSM server (spectrum protect)

    need ability to view the dsm.opt file on a windows system and be able to add/subtract entries from the TSM server (spectrum protect) This would be useful because many people cannot login to windows world if they are unix admins and manage the aix ...
    28 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Lock a SP client node and all its backup and archive data to prevent changes and deletions

    In case of a ransom ware attack, customer immediately locks affected Storage Protect Client nodes to prevent attacked nodes from accessing the Storage Protect server. This is done to prevent changes to the Storage Protect clients backup and to pre...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Allow a single defender eagle agent to manage multiple SP servers

    This enhancement would simplify the ability to roll SP server information up into the defender DMS. Currently, each SP server must have a separate eagle agent, which can be inefficient especially if managing multiple AIX SP servers, as each would ...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    The restriction of maximum VMDK size for data protection for VMWARE should be increased

    While current maximum VMDK size defined by VMware vSphere on VMFS is up to 62TB, the ISP for VE will allow backup only disks up to 8 TB - larger disks will fail. It should be increased to keep up with the product features.
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage protect setup for safeguarded tape functionality

    We are finding a description of the setup and recommendations for Storage Protect in combination with Safeguarded Tape.
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    AlwaysOn Servermon should be able to automatically cleanup old datacollections in the instance_home/srvmon directory

    Multiple of our SP server instances experienced an issue which prevented AlwaysOn Servermon from starting up.The servermon log files show that servermon is crashing at startup.We found that servermon is crashing at startup because there are a lot ...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Enable Storage Protect server to write its database backups to two sites in parallel

    For redundancy reasons, customers operate and replicate Storage Protect servers and user data in/ between multiple sites.A Storage Protect server is able today, to write user data ingested into the Storage Protect server to two storage pools in pa...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage Protect Client Installation/upgrade in Windows environment Windows System should not reboot to take effect

    This is regarding a customer query related to the IBM Storage Protect BA Client on the Windows platform. When an end user installs or performs a version upgrade of the Storage Protect BA Client, the installation process currently triggers a Window...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    SP Server certificate management

    Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime. This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers. We can script most of it (create request,...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

    Configuration: Replica source Storage is container pool only Copy pool exist on tape Replica target Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days Copy pool exist on tape Scenario When the source detects a bad file/object with a...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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