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Storage Protect Family

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    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...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    LDAP outage should not prevent DSMSERV startup

    If LDAP is unreachable dsmserv refuses to start. This should NOT be a requirement. This inserts additional delay and troubleshooting into network outages.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

    Remove SP server startup dependency on availability of LDAP URL and implement recurring probing of LDAP access

    Server does not restart when unable to inialize LDAP directory service. Moreover it seems that no recurring probing of LDAP access is currently factored into the SP server code, therefor no alerting will take place in case of loss/failed LDAP conn...
    over 7 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.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

    Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job

    Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

    TCP Window size - update default to 0 on platforms with auto tuning

    Both the TSM server and TSM client has an option named TCPWINDOWSIZE that tunes the TCP window size.<br /><br />Most of us would expect that the default would be 0, ie go with the operating system default settings. This is not the case...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

    Improvement of Automatical Certificate Distribution

    It is possible to distribute a new certificate with help of cert_distribute.sh script.This script has 3 "actions" distribute, report and cleanup."distribute" make automatical distribution of new ceritificate in the form of 4 schedules for each dom...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

    SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.16 and newer

    It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

    256K tape blocksize support for NDMP backups for NetApp

    We are doing NDMP backups of NetApp filer to TSM Server on IBM Protectier Storage (as VTL). We are doing LANFree backups using DATAMover to storage pool on Protectier. The storage pool is of type "NetApp Dump" "BACKUP NODE" TSM server command is u...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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