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Storage Protect Family

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Chargeback reporting in SPP (Pre/Post Dedup/Compression)

There is a similar RFE from a US customer but their requirements seem to differ slightly: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119247 Request from customer on chargeback reporting in SPP. This is a requirement f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

VM job reports

Spectrum Protect Plus reports don't meet our requirements.We can see if backups completed without any fails in the last 24 hour. Also VM SLA report can show us if VMs are in compliance. But it's not enough.There must be a report which shows if all...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future 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

SP PLUS support for SHAREPOINT witH SQL

Customer would like to have an application support for SHAREPOINT environemnt, backing up the VM with SP PLUS.SHAREPOINT is used with SQL 2017 database.Not yet with O365.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD"

Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD".We understand we can intentionally avoid this by recreating the certificate manually,but it will cause the operational load to occur.Our customer want us to make ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Functionality already exists

Dedup enabled on replication

The request is for deduplication being enabled when replicating between different vsnap repository
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Prevent Maintenance Tasks from reporting a warning when behaving as expected.

SPP can display events in the maintenance task, such as snapshots locked because of dependencies, as a warning in the summary dashboard. These however are expected behaviour with no action required. Displaying such events as a warning can be misle...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Configurable block size for tape

We have a tape library about 50km away from the managing SP server; connected over fibre. Due to the nature of the FC protocol for tape drives (strictly serial acknowledgement) and the latency, a single data stream gets limited to around 120MBps, ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Handle LTO9+ initialization process with parallellisation

I would like a dedicated command added to the SP server admin client for initialization of LTO9+ volumes. I have seen TL43-I-23, but doing it in SP makes it work for all libraries, not just TS. When we first took the LTO9 library in use, I scripte...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow local protect storagepool for cloud Container

Because of compliance guidelines, many users need to implement a “media brake” at their backup strategy. But the, very cost effective, Cloud Container Storage lacks the ability to protect the Storage pool to a tape pool.As the “protect stgpool typ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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