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Storage Protect Family

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TSM-VE: Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)

The idea is to be able to process more than one vmdk at a time, within a single VM backup job.This would help a lot to handle huge virtual machine, by decreasing the overall backup elapsed time (as well as increasing the overall backup performance...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Delivered

Data Protection for VMware Support for vSphere 6.7

The latest version of Data Protection for VMWare, v8.1.4, supports vSphere 6.5 and 6.5 update and patch levels. VSphere 6.7 is out, when will this be supported?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Export from Directory Containers

Export and Import is a vital function in TSM. Both for transfer node data between TSM servers and for Off-site and longterm storage of backup data. Directory-container pools are the latest and in many ways the best way to store local backup data i...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

TSM for VE needs better VM selection/filtering mechanisms.

When creating a new backup schedule in the TSM for VE plugin in VMware (v 6.4.0.1), the user's options for selecting VM's to be backed up are severely limited. The first limitation is the view by host or datastore. If you want to backup particular...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Renew Certificate for all clients

Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

REPLICATE NODE needs a DURATION option

REPLICATE NODE locks filespaces. If bandwidth to the target is impaired, or if the target's storage is slow, then replicate node can effectively hang, locking filespaces for days. This causes backups to hang or fail, and other daily administration...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

SPP patches released should contain readme for changes and fixes included with patch level

A customer who was instructed to apply SPP patch 1 (287) inquired as to the fixes or changes within patch 1 and was not able to locate a readme file with a list of changes for these patches. This readme or list of documented changes will help a cu...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Estimated end time and update process indicator at the first start after update

When the Spectrum Protct Server is updated, db2 table schemas are updated frequently. This can could take a long time to be usable the first time it is started after the update. Unfortunately, you don't see a progress bar and you can't foresee whe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

CANCEL PROTECT or DURATION on PROTECT STGPOOL

CANCEL PROTECT and/or a DURATION option for PROTECT STGPOOL is needed.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Platform migration between same endians w/o. export/import

The only supported method for platform migration is via export/import of data, which (despite that it is really time consuming and tedious) is practically not possible in some circumstances, like when the customer uses a huge amount of WORM media,...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

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