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Storage Protect Family

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Support for SLES 15 using Spectrum Protect DP for HANA

I need a statement of support for DP for ERP SAP HANA on SLES 15
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

Backing up data to Replication Spectrum protect server when Production TSM server id down for many days.

When the production Spectrum Protect server is down or having Disaster scenario, SP admins should go through tiresome steps to backup the data to replication SP Server. For each client, we will need to below steps for customers having 4000+ client...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect should not backup vSPhere vCLS VMs

The vCLS VMs should be fully ignored by Spectrum Protect for vSphere. IBM support could not help with the problem, but recommended me to submit an RFE for this.See:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GU...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Datamover rebalance command should also rebalance the data each DM is responsible for rather just the number of VMs.

The rebalance command only balances the number of VMs managed by a DataMover, but not the amount of data. We think that would be as important if not more than the number of VMs being managed. Ultimately a rebalance operation that takes both items ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Functionality already exists

Moving/VMotioning a VM should reset the tagging automatically.

This is a manual process but SP4VE is touted as an enterprise solution, so this should be automatically addressed. We do NOT use the plugin and ARE using tagging. We have 2 ESX environments each associated with a separate TSM instance. When utiliz...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Need to add the functionality for VM multi-writer enabled disks backup. (Object. CBT-enabled VM having multi-writer disk(s))

Hello Team, We configured few VM backup In IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and those are getting failed due to multi-writer enabled on their disks. too resolve this issue, we raised a case (case # TS008530431). We get an update that in case is there is ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Restore are very slow

Querying of Exchange backups is very slow in a large environments. E.g. in environment with 100+ Exchange mailbox databases and 200 backups per each it take nearly 3 hours. This causes that restores are terribly slow.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Option "Skipmissingsyswfiles" to be allowed in the Client Options Set

The "Skipmissingsyswfiles" option is needed to stop SP/TSM from skipping system state files that will be needed for a "Bare Metal Restore" (BMR). Currently this option can only be set in the DSM.OPT file. We want to be able to set this option in t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Cancel process ALL

Add extra Cancel Process options - Cancel Process ALL- Cancel pro migration (or cancel migration)- Cancel pro backup (or cancel backup) For each process name a Cancel command. Cancel Expiration and Cancel Export already exists.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Creation of the O365 account automatically from SPP

When configuring backup of O365 the account and all required permissions shall be automatically applied from SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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