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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect Windows server as virtual machine on KVM based hypervisor.

In order to be compliant with IBM to get support and to have more flexibility around Spectrum Protect, we need to be able to run Spectrum Protect server as a virtual machine on a KVM based hypervisor (RHEV/Proxmox VE/Native KVM etc...) with Window...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Retrules for databases and Exchange filespaces

Ability to create long term / ad-hoc achives from already backed-up data is critical to our customers. We can not afford of re-reading the same data under different nodename to store it under different retention policy. There is a need for retenti...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

OSSM master encyption key needs to be protected from loss

If the OSSM master encyption key is lost, the protected data stored on the IBM Storage Protect server cannot be recovered for the IBM Storage Protect Plus client. The product needs a better resiliency mecanism to avoid the loss of that key.
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Delete orphaned entries in DEDUPSTATS

In Spectrum Protect there is a requirement to use the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command to determine the deduplication performance on an individual node / filespace level. The DELETE DEDUPSTATS command is used to tidy up old entries. However, it will le...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level. This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thre...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

SPPlus : restore VM to my cloud provider

In Spectrum Protect plus , it would be interesting to have the ability to restore a VM to a cloud provider. As we can restore to alternate location today, alternate location could be then IBM Cloud or Amazon or Azure so the VM is being restored an...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP GUI Language Option

Starting from SPP Version 10.1.4 the GUI detects the browser language to automatically choose the language for the Web GUI (for example to german). We need a way to configure the language for the Web GUI for the logged in user. This is because som...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

avoid external ssh access to spp container pods for ISP Plus kubernetes backup

In release 10.1.6 of ISP Plus ssh access to the spp agent container pods is needed from outside the k8s cluster (ISPP Server needs this access).There are security concerns at a customer site due to this requirement.SPP server to spp agent pod comm...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP monitoring for Ticket

SPP failure alerts support for monitoring tools
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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