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Storage Protect Family

new command to q options which differ from their default value

There are many options available for the SP server, documented as well as many undocumented server options. All have default values, some/many are adapted to specific environments. A new command would be helpful which displays all the options whic...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

Data Protection for VMware - vSphere 9 support

As we need to update to vSphere 9, could you please support this release? Data Protection for VMware supports vSphere 8.0 only (beginning with 8.1.17). https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/requirements-documents-ibm-storage-protect-virtual-environments

Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pool Storage Space Reduction

Bosch is requesting a Spectrum Protect server administrative command which allows the administrator to reclaim container storage pool space including deletion of empty volumes from the file system.In an optimal implementation, the administrative c...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

Support for VMware v9.0

Support for VMware Cloud foundation v9.0

Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under consideration

Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Planned for future release