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Storage Protect Family

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Enhancement for Anomaly Detection

I like the idea of Anomaly Detection in Spectrum Protect for the Server, starting in 8.1.5, to detect a possible crypto trojan. But in the our Use Cases it will become clear, that this is not much helpfull.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Need online password validation option for Spectrum Protect database backup

The Spectrum Protect database backups need password to be specified to include master encryption key along with database backup. However, there is no option to validate the password when spectrum protection instance is up and running. The only way...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Server support for Red Hat 8

Spectrum Protect server needs to run on latest Red Hat Enterpise Linux editions 8 and 8.1.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

OC nodegroup handling

When dealing with node replication there is sometimes a need to group certain nodes in nodegroups i.e. for more frequent replication than for other nodes. I'd like to see a panel where one can create and display nodes grouped by nodegroup and also...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Restore "not backed up disks" as empty disks in VMWare

Following DR Scenario:VM with a database on it. We backup only the root and opt Disks using VMware backup, DB and log gets backed up using SPP DB Backup. 4 disks:Hard Disk 1 --> rootvg (SCSI0:0) backupHard Disk 2 --> dbvg (SCSI0:1) no backup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - hardware snapshot integration with Power and x86

Spectrum Protect Plus does not support storage hardware snapshot technology and the integration with Power VS and x86.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Allow wildcard patterns for node names in tiering rules

Support the usage of wildcard pattern for node names in storage tiering rules.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration