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Storage Protect Family

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SPP re-catalog from vSnap content (consistency audit)

Ability for SPP server to populate/crosscheck its catalog information based on Vsnap content. Just like an audit to ensure that everything that is stored on Vsnap is known in the catalog, plus the ability to register images found on vSnap which wo...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Servermon (Windows) is using cmd to archive servermon files, located in <instance_dir\srvmon

To protect our ISP Server environment on Windows against Ransomware attacks, we are using the program Blocky for TSM from Grau Data. We can whitelist all programs and applications to update the critical files in the filesysems, like db, log and in...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Ability to export backup data from directory container Storage pool and mover node data from a Directory Container stgpool

SYSTEM: Product IBM Spectrum Protect ACTOR: User requires additional option of the export/import node to include backup and archive data stored on directory container object storage pool, both on on and off premise.Function to back up a directory ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 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

Ability to delete volumes from vSnap storage.

The ability to empty or move data from existing storage disks and then delete the disks volumes from a vSnap server would make the process of changing the underlying storage environment much easier. If we want to change out an EOS/EOL storage arra...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Parallel disk merging and VM Creation during multiple VM restore.

When we initiate multiple VM restore, we have observed that VM creation and disk merging is going in sequential manner. One VM is getting created at a time after disk merging process. Whereas if it is possible to perform parallel VM creation and d...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

SPP File restore selection and Progress

SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP: NAT connection trough dedicated vLAN

SPP server has configured NAT with additional 3 network IP's. The same vLAN's are configured in the vSNAP server + proxy combo (IBM appliance).During Backup/Restore operation SPP communicate with client with correct IP (different than managment). ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

Hardware snapshot for VMware backups

We use SP for VE for backing up VMs and it works great for normal sized VMs.For VMs with big disks and high IO there is a performance penalty when there exists a vmware snapshot. The penalty is even bigger when removing the vmware snapshot and con...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

SPP reporting for Daily, Monthly backup status

SPP reporting has currently some good reports but there is no report with clear Backup completion report.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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