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Storage Protect Family

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SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necess...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Ability to export support logs out of OperationsCenter GUI

In case of problems with the ISP environment it is needed to open a problem ticket and provide various log files from the ISP server. If the Operations Center is used it should be able to extract the logfiles out of the Operations Center. (e.g. ac...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

CentOs as a supported OS for TDP for VE datamover

Having RHEL 7 as supported Environment, and having CentOS 7 as supported in Spectrum Protect, it is highly appreciated to enhance support for running TDPVMware datamover and mountproxy in CentOS as well.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow multiple or all SQL DBs selection in adhoc backup

Customer is requesting the ability to choose multiple DBs or all DBs for SQL Protection when running an adhoc backup via the SPP UI.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments

Currently there is no support for backups of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments with TSM/ISP4VE (which is stated in the documentation). Due to the fact that some customers require encryption for their VMware environments, support for the new (V6.5...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

VM recovery problem

Hypervisor vmvare.There is a VM with many connected disks, about 50 TB.Only disk 1 is backed up and needs to be restored.When we start recovery of only the first disk, the recovery mechanism checks for free space in the storage not for disk 1, but...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Support for MS Sharepoint

Support for the protect of Microsoft Sharepoint environments on-premis. File-level recovery.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

TSM B/A Client "archive vm" equivalent of "backup vm"

In the current TSM b/a client for windows (with VMware tools), there is a "backup vm" command that will perform full image or file level backups for VM guests. There is no option to perform an archive (file level or image) We need the ability to a...
over 12 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