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Storage Protect Family

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Option to perform manual full backup of VMs

We need an option to override the incremental forever and force a (new) full backup of VMs.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Server audit log for restore operations

In some scenarios it might be desirable, that restore operations for specific nodes can be logged - so that it later on is possible to do a traceback to identify a given account, that performed a restore of one or more objects on a client. The log...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Server and Storage agent support for SLES 12 Power (LE)

Currently the only officially supported Protect Server and Storage Agent on Power Linux Little Endian is RedHat. What about the customers with SLES 12 LE ?
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Delivered

SPP CA certificate update using CLI

Providence Healthcare is requesting the the CA Certificate can be updated via the CLI on the system.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

TSM for VE: Instant Restore for full VM Restore

Currently TSM for VE only supports near instant restore for singe disks/volumes/file systems. For a restore of a whole virtual machine, no instant restore is possible. One possibility to provide this functionality would be following: 1. Make the T...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Disk Migration single thread

In a disk storage pool with only 1 node the migration process from Disk to tape is single threaded. The only way today around this is to use File device classes. We would prefer not to use File devices classes as these add other overheads. There i...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

TSM for VE GUI Improvements.

1.- Currently when we go to scheduler a backup/restore of VMs we need to expand the datacenter and then expand esx by esx in order to look for the VM. This doesn't like to the customers, especially when they have many ESXs. We need to see all VMs ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

TSM for VE - Add support for Multiple vCenter & TSM Servers

Add the functionality for configuring multiple vCenter and TSM Servers to on the same TSM for VE (VMware) GUI. This will allow customers to be able to manage multiple vCenter servers and also to manage backups to multiple TSM Servers.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Multiple VMware webclient plug-in registrations in one VCenter server

Customer would like to have the possibility of multiple TSM4VE plug-in registrations on the same vCenter server. In case customers are using more than one Spectrum Protect TDP configurations within one VSphere environment, multiple DP GUI connecti...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

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