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TDP VMware INSTANT VM Rostore of ESX with EMC Multipathing

The current setup of the TDP Vmware IBM Spectrum Protect V 8.1.2.0 ,Instant restore works for iscsi goes through the NMP, but the original datastore is using EMC powerpath, which is no-native multipathing, We need the enhancement for the IBM Spect...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

OPCenter server can access the internet through a HTTP proxy

IBM Ticket : TS007157717 Hello, I would like to contact you beacause I am simply looking for an answer to a question.I'm looking to implement the auto-deploy feature for a client. The OPCenter server can access the internet through a network proxy...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to skip client cleanup

It should be possible to cancel an active restore to a target without CDM cleaning up the target system. This could be a check box to indicate that the admin is responsible for manual cleanup before initiating the cancel.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

VSS application protection option to TSMVE GUI

Customers of ours find it very complicated to protect VM's with VSS application protection-Almost everything has been integrated into the VE GUI, but to backup SQL/Exchange VM, you have to go to the OPT file and add INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS option, and in...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

GUI for TDP ORACLE backup and restore

have a GUI for ORACLE TDP RMAN backups.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE vmcli

I want to run a TSM for VE vmcli backup using an external scheduler (ControlM) so I can chain backups, dedupe's, reclaims, node replications, etc together.The backup command pretty much forces me to use the -I and specify a file with vmname: in it...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

randam/sequential performance stats in SVC performance data

randam/sequential performance stats in SVC performance data
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of filespace for Hyper-V backups

When you backup a Hyper-V VM using the "backup vm" command, the files representing the VM are stored in their own filespace. This effectively excludes them from expiration on deletion, as filespace aren't subject to expiration. When a VM is delete...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM does not allow versioning of file-attributes only

TSM does not offer any possibility to do a backup with version control for only(!) the standard UNIX-file-permissions. In fact, TSM does not allow to backup the file-perms only, with or without versioning.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Supports Key Wrapping over KMIP Protocol

Key wrapping is a cryptographic algorithm which aims to provide “privacy and integrity protection for specialized data such as cryptographic keys. KMIP Protocol currently supports the Key Wrapping functionality but IBM Storwize V7000 do not suppor...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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