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Storage Protect Family

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selectable DIO/nonDIO-Support on Storagepools

we are working now in our TSM-Environment with a complete implementation of GPFS as the the filesystem layer for our TSM-Plattfom on AIX and Linux. With the possibility to use many performance function in gpfs we can massively enhance our performa...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

No direct support for open-source database like Mongo DB,Cassandra, MySQL, MariaDB,PostgreSQL

Why: Robust one stop backup solution and no need for additional storage to perform local native backup, optimized performance and granular recovery. Who Would Benefit:Application users , System admins , DB admins and organizational leadership. How...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

No native backup support for Nutanix

Why: Seamless integration, optimized performance, granular recovery, compliance adherence, and vendor support contribute to a robust backup solution within the Nutanix VM environment. Note: Currently it is supported by Storage Defender but it requ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SPP Updated Reporting

Currently the reporting in Spectrum Protect Plus needs a bit of work. Couple of requests i would like to make.1. The ability to have all sizes in the same format. IE everything in bytes, MB,GB,TB etc.The reason for this is then the ability to sort...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Support-info collection, upload and analytics tool

It is a pain to collect db2diag-logs, dsmffdc-logs, Q SYSTEM output, Q ACT output and so on for every support ticket, then bundle the files, scp to computer with browser and upload to IBM Support. Why not, instead of sending the commands every tim...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Utilize NetApp Snapshots for Spectrum Protect Plus backups

Please investigate allowing Spectrum Protect Plus to perform an array-based Snapshot on NetApp systems for VMware vSphere backups. The software could trigger vSphere snapshots on the VMs in a datastore to remove the write lock from the VMDK and ca...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Backup vCLS VMs

Exclude vCLS VMs from VM backups using TDP for VMware. Is not possible exclude VMs from backup using TAG, when VM is backed up using Schedule-Tag option.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Lucene DB maintenance option

I require an option within Spectrum Protect Plus that that will given me the ability to either reset the Lucene db (like drop the entire DB) or remove file indexing entries older than x days) This would give me the flexibilty to better control wha...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Space and container usage on SP server

Ever since directory container pools was introduced, the "undocumented / unsupported" command: show sdpool has been the best/only way of managing free, used and unavailable space in the dedup/non-dedup containers. In many cases a manual "move cont...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Disable alerts when SLA has no VM

We would like an option to disable alerts when SLA has no VM
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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