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Storage Protect Family

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Exclude Single Disks during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of a virtual machine. This enhancement will result in tremendous data reduction.

XLS output from scheduled VM Backup history report

Scheduled report which is sending by e-mail is not possible to generate it in XLS format. It is normally possible to chose between xls and pdf format by instant (not scheduled) report run only.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Windows Server 2019 Core

Exchange 2019 is supported on Windows Server 2019 Server Core. We need support for backup/restore on this platform Microsoft is pushing Windows Server 2019 Server Core as the OS of choice for Exchange 2019. On https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/e...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Command to move/migrate data from legacy storage pool to container pool

With the release of 7.1.3 and the new container pools there is currently no command that will let you migrate data from a legacy storage pool to the new container pool. This makes it much more complicated for us as we have to support multiple stor...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Report of unprotected VMs

Dashboard and "Protected VMs" report on which VMs are protected and it also reports on number of unprotected VMs but not which VMs are unprotected.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Provide AWS image for SPP server

It is currently not possible to deploy the SPP server in AWS. The SPP vSnap can be deployed in AWS, but this require an on-prem SPP server (or a SPP server deployed in VMware Cloud on AWS). An AWS specific SPP AMI image is required.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Snapdiff backup support for SP 8.1.4.1 Windows client and OnTap 9.3P2

We currently use Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 client to do SnapDiff backup of OnTap 8.3.2P7 file shares. We would like to be able to do the same using Spectrum Protect 8.1.4.x doing SnapDiff backups of OnTap 9.3P2 file shares. This functionality is crit...

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage as container storage pool.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

TIVsm-WEBGUI REST API documentation

Having installed and configured TIVsm-WEBGUI package the REST API is visable an useable. But no documentation exists.

ZFS Support for Spectrum Protect Server on Linux x86_64

Having support for ZFS filesystem on Linux x86_64 is a must. ZFS filesystem is a strong and reliable filesystem that exists for years in Solaris world.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered