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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Copy Data Management missing RHEL 8 support

Currently Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.13 does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Application archive logs included in copy operations

SPP can protect both databases and its archive logs. Those backups are stored on a vSnap, so the customer can restore both of them if they need. If the customer wants to run a copy operation of those backups to a Cloud Object Storage, for example,...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Enable 'disable log capability' to SQL Ad Hoc Backup

In an SQL Always-On (clustered) DB restore, we need the ability to disable log backups using the SQL Ad-Hoc backup function.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms.

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms. ANE4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC=rc mode=full_or_incr, target node name='target_node_name', data ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Save the last copy

We have seen scenarios where VMware Virtual Machines just disrepair out from vCenter because of VMX file has been corrupted, or has been deleted of mistake.And because of the server or service hasn't been that important or been used that offend. W...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

SPP GUI integrated in SP OC

if SPP Vsnap will have a direct integration with SP, GUIs should also be integrated. This integration could be show as only one product with different features.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

XS & XXS blueprint confguration for ISP

One of our customer is planning to migrate his ISP (8.1.16) to a new HW with latest ISP version. Customer's existing setup is quite small & was implemented as per blueprint guidelines. His current Db size is 110GB with container pools size of ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

SP for VE: Remove or increase 8TB size VMware virtual machine disks limit

To be able to protect large VMware vmdk files using Spectrum Protect fot Virtual Environments, can the limit on vmmaxvirtualdisks option be increased or removed?
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

More flexibility in assigning rights to administrators

In large/complex environments with multiple people having administrative access to the Spectrum Protect server, it is desirable to be able to have better granularity on the rights assigned to each person/login or group. This is in order to be able...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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