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Replication, Resume Backup on Target vSnap

When vSnap replication for backups/SLA is enabled, incremental backup is only possible to the one, primary vSnap. If vSnap on primary site fails/unavailable, currently a new FULL backup on the secondary/replication site must be done, even if it ho...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: Improvement suggestion for the Restore-OpenShift function "Restore to alternate cluster"

System: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server Spectrum Protect Plus is used to secure the various OpenShift clusters. In the event of a disaster recovery, it is a common scenario that the saved status of the defective cluster has to be transferred to a...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

An option to disable unmount mount for bulk selective recalls using multiple file lists from the same tape.

If you do bulk selective recalls, with multiple file lists coming from the same tape, storage archive unmounts the tape after finishing the list. After starting the new list, the same tape is mounted again. This causes massive delays mounting and ...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

SPP M365 Backup via Proxy

Several clients are enforcing the usage of a client provided HTTP/HTTPS proxy server to grant systems access to the Internet. In such case the IP network traffic is not routed through the default gateway. That is the reason why a client proxy need...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Remove null node name used for directory container storage pools from occupancy table

For directory container stgpools the Occupancy table contains an entry with a null nodename. This entry holds about half of the total files and reporting MB of that stgpool. Actually the real size of the stgpool is the total reporting MB minus the...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Object Lock / Immutability with SP/P with Hitachi Cloud Scale

In alignment with our Cyber Resiliency sales play many of our clients are looking at ways to utilise the assets they already have purchased to "sure up" their infrastructure. We know data management solutions are a target of internal and external ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration