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    VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM under SPP

    VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM : This option allowss Sp for VE tolerates VM with RDMs. It is necessary because these SO VMs can't be saved with SPP.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Operations Center: Select multiple (but not all) servers for a report

    Currently, you can select either one or all servers for a report. It would be very helpfull if you would be able to select a subset of servers.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

    Add command that will display the eta for the full process to bring a drive back into use after its replacement.

    In certain cases, you'd like to know the full time all work related to the replacement of a drive will take. For example, we had a major issue, with multiple hw components needing to be replaced. I can't replace the next one, until this drive work...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    SPP restore skip existing files

    Would like the ability to do file restores with the option of do not overwrite existing. Currently, if "Overwrite existing Files/Folders" is not checked, restore fails at first existing directory. The functionality should be similar to the Spectru...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    certify with cisco NX-OS 8.4 (2a)

    actually the nx-os Version of the cisco MDS 9700 8.4(2a) is not certify with spectrum control .. but this version is not the last .. and we need to have this version certify to able to have some support on it !
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Hyper-V Cloud Backup

    Here is my requirement for hyper-v cloud backup and restore. FYI: Net Backup have all these features. 1)      Simultaneous Guest backups on Cluster Shared Volume.2)      Follows a Guest around the ...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

    Enable a storage system to perform NDMP backups using the CELERRADUMP data format

    Please add “DellEMC” to the Vendor-name list that are allowed to use “celerradump” dataformat
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Client-options to have node backup/store client logfiles in seperate log-filespace on TSM server

    It would be nice, if a client node (BA-Client/TDP) automatically could upload logfiles to a seperate filespace on the TSM server at the end of a backup job - so that these logs could be extracted from the server staff and examined in case of any p...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

    ECE - Support for SEDs

    Support the use of SEDs for storage with ECE, either with locally managed keys, centrally managed keys, or ideally, both
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    Different retention policies (Time) for SAP HANA Backup

    customers wants to use of existing SAP HANA backup data to satisfy business needs for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly data collections without using different nodes for the identical machine
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

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