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Storage Protect Family

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    Increase history from 2 weeks to a longer (per choice) period of time.

    2 weeks are to short for history for clients and servers where customers often asks for changes that happened maybe 1-2 months ago. Espicially when it comes to "what happened / why did my storage grow last month" but also in regards of SP server s...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

    Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    Qumulo SMB backup API integration

    Integration with Qumulo API to eliminate the long/timely treewalk to see which files/folders have changed.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

    There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Rebalancing datamovers for a TAG-based schedule should exclude EXCLUDED VMs

    When running a command to rebalance assigned datamovers for a TAG-based schedule I was surprised that the VMs with TAG 'Ecxluded' of category 'Backup Management (IBM Spectrum Protect)' was included and had a datamover-tag assigned. The rebalancing...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Make GUI less mouse-scrolling-mayham

    When working in GUI (I long for a CLi) it is divided into different parts using scrollable text-boxes. No part of GUI seem to be resizable, which makes working in GUI hard. When choosing a SLA I need to scroll the SLA-policy-text-box and if I scro...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Improve VM Restore GUI

    Remove the necessity of choosing "Type of Restore." Make one of the options (on-demand) the default. Add a button to show all available restore points without having to poke around in the calendar.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    CDM: Allow parallel mounts/restores to proxy/remote host (Windows)

    CDM should allow and handle right mounting multiple snapshots of same type/application to another host (mount proxy/remote host) at the same time (Windows). Intention is to offload multiple MSSQL Server snapshots in parallel. It seems that OS/SCSI...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

    For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    Protect S3 object client via storage rule for copying data

    We are using SPP and want that the VMs are directly restorable in a DR case. Currently we are using on the ISP server a directory container and protect it with "protect stgp" via copycontainer and stgrule (copy data -> offsite tape) to be prepa...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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