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Storage Protect Family

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    cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

    In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Support for Active Directory Item restore

    Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Directory Container Erasure Coding

    I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

    For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    SPP: Get SQL backup amount via REST API / report

    I would like to have possibility in SPP to get correct backup amount (frontend size) for each client. Just for clarification frontend amount should be base backup + all transfer sizes before deduplication and compression. Actual build-in reports a...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    VSNAP uses NFS in v.3 in VM test restore. How can we force VSNAP to use NFS in v.4

    It will improve security, performance improvements, improved stability and scalability. NFS is in v.4 due to this ensure VM restores and other operations are performed in the most efficient and secure manner possible.
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    Process DB snapshot volumes with DRM

    Prior to SP 8.1.25, the SP sever disaster recovery manager (DRM) would process DB snapshot backup volumes. Beginning in 8.1.25 (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT47560), DB snapshot volumes are ignored by DRM which can make them invisib...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

    Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository. I think it will be a good idea to create a repository and manually upload the deployment packages.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

    IAM functionality via REST API

    I’d like to raise our concern on Storage Protect product violating one of our internal guidelines by being incapable of providing required service. It is expected to manage Storage Protect administrative accounts from enterprise internal Identity ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    To have a possiblity to disable certain ciphers on BA

    As one of our customers is operating an SP environment, they are regularly check with PEN-tests. And each year the find the BA to be possible vulnerable to CVE-2013-0169 (LUCKY13) as there are CBC ciphers available on the "schemode=prompted port" ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

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