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Storage Protect Family

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    add functionality to audit container command

    If for some reason some containers in a directory stgdpool pool have become unavailable or readonly, audit container must be run. If there are many containers to run audit on there is no way of queing up the audit processes.I'd like a wait=yes fla...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

    Spectrum Protect Plus - Office365 support needed

    Office 365 is for 4Q18/1H19 on roadmap, support needed in Q42018customer has Office 365 in place and need local backup, if Protect Plus will not be available in Q418 he will look at CommVault
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 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.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

    REPLICATE NODE needs a DURATION option

    REPLICATE NODE locks filespaces. If bandwidth to the target is impaired, or if the target's storage is slow, then replicate node can effectively hang, locking filespaces for days. This causes backups to hang or fail, and other daily administration...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Allow more flexible retention polices

    Currently the SLA Policies only allow retnetion period in days. The customer would like to set retention period in weeks, months, years or indefinitely.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

    Add multiple recipients to receive mail from SPP

    When adding SMTP information to SPP can we add multiple recipients to receive emails?
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Backup of an Individual VM in an SLA Policy

    Customer requires the ability to backup an individual VM in an SLA.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

    Remove SP server startup dependency on availability of LDAP URL and implement recurring probing of LDAP access

    Server does not restart when unable to inialize LDAP directory service. Moreover it seems that no recurring probing of LDAP access is currently factored into the SP server code, therefor no alerting will take place in case of loss/failed LDAP conn...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Data Protection for VMware Support for vSphere 6.7

    The latest version of Data Protection for VMWare, v8.1.4, supports vSphere 6.5 and 6.5 update and patch levels. VSphere 6.7 is out, when will this be supported?
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

    export to tape from directory-container storage pools.

    I would like to see an export function that enables me to export to tape from directory-container storage pools. Export to tape is only possible from a sequential pool now days, but I would like to do it from container storage.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

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