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Storage Protect Family

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SPP physical server Filesystem backup support problem

Need a lot of improvement backing File System backups
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Activities history (audits).

Hallo As we see, practically, there is no user (admin) activity logs in the SPP. It is not possible for example, to track, who and when apply or remove SLA from VM or application. It would be nice to have activities list for different operations, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM - Re-use SSH sessions for IBM SVC Storage

Spectrum Copy Data Management creates new SSH sessions when running SVC CLI commands. Each CLI commands requires opening an SSH session and once the CLI command completes, closing the SSH session. Instead of opening a new SSH session for every CLI...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

dont perform a FULL backup of all vmdks if only one vmdk is resized

Resizing of the VMware VM disk will trigger a reset of the CBT data of that specific disk. This causes a FULL backup of the entire VM. Not only the resized disk will be backed up fully, but all other disks too.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

SPP - Option for Non-memory Snapshot

By default SPP always takes a memory snapshot.Although SPP has the option to disable VSS (Quiesced Snapshot), it doesn not have the option to disable a memory snapshot.We NEED the option to disable memory snapshot for some VMs which cannot be snap...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Operation Center Client Deployment - not able to schedule client updates if a single server failed receiving update packages

In the OC in the client deployment section you can schedule the client updates, however this scheduling part is only "unlocked" if the pushing of client packages to all spoke servers has run error free for all servers.So the command "REFRESH PKG S...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Multiple transfer streams between pools for data from a single node

We use a TSM system where the nodes/clients push data first to disk, then the TSM server migrate the data from disk to tape.We have several use cases where nodes periodically push data faster than the ~350MB/s that our tape drives (TS1150) can han...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Hardware snapshot for VMware backups

We use SP for VE for backing up VMs and it works great for normal sized VMs.For VMs with big disks and high IO there is a performance penalty when there exists a vmware snapshot. The penalty is even bigger when removing the vmware snapshot and con...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Multitenancy, support for multiple AD/ldap

SPP need support for Multitenancy and ability to add multiple AD/ldap (Under System->LDAP/SMTP) so MSPs can protect multiple customers with one SPP solution and let customer decide which users/groups should have access to what in SPP.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration