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Storage Protect Family

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HW Snapshot support in SPP for HPe 3PAR

Customer (a large SP and competition (mainly for VMware) user) is running an RFI concerning backup/recovery. Part of this RFI is protection of VMware. Customer is using HP 3PAR hardware for their VMware vSphere enviroment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE (vCloud) should report vApp backup failure when associated VM backups are not successful

TSM/ISP for VE reports that a backup of a vCloud vApp is successful even when a backup of a VM within that vApp has failed. When one VM associated with a vApp failed to back up, TSM still reported: 03/06/2017 20:05:12 Total number of vApps process...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM VE - Instant restore with FC presented LUN

For enviroments that cannot use iScsi, an optional method would be FC or NFS.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Export operations increased to 256kB blocksize

IBM labs has detected Export operations blocksize to be a performance bottleneck.All other tape operations are said to use 256kB blocksize whilst Export operations use 32kB blocksize. The request is to start using 256kB blocksize for Export operat...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Add equivalent of "issue message" command to DSMC, so it will be logged on client as well

Recently I answered an RFP question regarding different automation techniques, including the use of Issue Message dsmadmc command to send a message to the server activity log. I realized that this functionality would be enhanced if we could issue ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM4VE Cloud Service Provider Mode

Because of all ransomware attacks we see more transformations from other backup vendors back to IBM Storage Protect for VE, but the issue with TSM4VE is that it demanding a System Account in the Storage Protect Server to be able to work, we have d...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for HADOOP File System

There is a need for Spectrum Protect to protect Hadoop file system
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

ANR2034E should be INFO and not ERROR

It's annoying that there's an error logged just because I ran query mount and nothing was mounted (maybe that was a good thing). This is how it currently looks on one of our servers, 184644 counts of ANR2034E, second place is 938. That's a lot of ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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