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Storage Protect Family

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    Execute file rights need to be removed from AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files

    For security reasons, execute file rights need to be removed from all AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files. IBM support confirmed that the execute file rights are not required and can be removed. Example: /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/servermon# ls...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pool Storage Space Reduction

    Bosch is requesting a Spectrum Protect server administrative command which allows the administrator to reclaim container storage pool space including deletion of empty volumes from the file system.In an optimal implementation, the administrative c...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support for Azure Blob Storage Cold tier in TSM Server

    Microsoft Azure Blob Storage offers three online access tiers: Hot, Cool, and Cold.According to current documentation and support statements, the IBM TSM Server (Tivoli Storage Manager) currently supports only the Hot and Cool tiers. From a techni...
    26 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

    Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

    Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for unlimited VMMAXVIRTUALDISKS size

    We are start using TSM for VMware again after a few years using a different vendor. But during our migration we see that the maxlimit for a VMDK is still 8TB are we are VMs that has much larger VMDK files. We need to be able to increase this value...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

    For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

    The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

    Allow data-lock cloud containers to be reclaimed

    I would like to have the feature "Reclaim Containers" available when using datalock stgpools. Looking at my SPOC console, I will have 263.3TB of data that could be reclaimed from my cloud storage pool. Since this is not supported because I'm using...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

    ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

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