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Storage Protect Family

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    Improve Logical Block Protection performance by using faster CRC implementation

    The Logical Block Protection (LBP) feature in Spectrum Protect (TSM) is currently limiting performance when used with current generation tape drives. In production we see around 360 MB/s without LBP enabled, degrading to around 200 MB/s with LBP e...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

    Ability to delete filespace tied in retention set.

    If we set up f.e a retention rule to save a yearly backup for all VMs, we then can not delete any of the VMs filespaces completley. Only if we delete the retentionset and thus deleting all of the yearly backups.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    retenrule with individual filespaces

    The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    When IBM spectrum protect baclient will support SNAPDIFF backup on NETAPP version 9.13.y?

    The BA client version 8.1.13 (or later) up to but not including version 8.1.23 supports NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.9.y (where y is 0 or higher). Starting with version 8.1.23 (or later), support extends to NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.12.y (whe...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

    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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Delivered

    Support for Mac El Capitan (OSX 10.11.x)

    The latest Mac release will be installed on many if not all new Mac endpoint devices. Further, many existing devices currently running Mac Yosemite (OSX 10.10) will upgrade to this latest OS release shortly. We have over 1,000 Mac client accounts,...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

    add functionality to audit container command

    If for some reason some containers in a directory stgdpool pool have become unavailable or readonly, audit container must be run. If there are many containers to run audit on there is no way of queing up the audit processes.I'd like a wait=yes fla...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 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 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

    Add SHA256 checksum to Passport Advantage packages

    Please Add SHA256 checksum to Passport Advantage webpage image file details.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

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