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Storage Protect Family

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Make Spectrum Protect Plus IPv6 compliant

Spectrum Protect Plus only works with IPv4.If only IPv6 is enabled than SPP is not working (loses connection to his VDAP storage by example).So can you make SPP IPv6 compliant.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Document CLI based upgrade of SPP server

Our team uses IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server for data backup and for data reuse. However, we need to upgrade IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server component to current version but we cannot access the admin interface on port 8090 cause this IP port i...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Prevent media with read/write errors to be reused

When a tape has a write error, it should not be reused when it has returned to scratch pool. We need some method to track media statistics across the life time of a tape, from all the SP host that has used the tape. Each SP server should send tape...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

New Vsphere TAG at VM level to specify scheduling priority

A new PRIORITY tag at vm level could be used to force the tdp4ve backup schedule to backup the vms in a desired sequence ( ex priority option from 0 to 100 ) default 100 , 0 highest priority 100 lowest priority. Customer are often requesting to ba...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Test Restore Periodically

Restore customer data Periodically without needing of system outage or stand by system.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Initial config

Initial config does not state that ethernet requires access to vmkernel network. A quick test during config can fix this. Otherwise you need to add a nic, find cli user/password and manually config the new nic. Best practice is to have one mgmt ni...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Operation center does not support working with server groups

Because of the size of our environment (30 servers) we use servergroups for several things like for instance routing a command to several servers at once. The use, creation and modification of server groups is currently not supported in operation ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Protection of namespaces under AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services

We have customer in Brazil which would like to protect just the namespaces which they have on AKS, storing this backup on Azure Object Storage. Currently, SPP does not support AKS.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

NDMP Restore function for normal GUI client

Please implement NDMP filelevel restore functions in the normal GUI client like they were in the webgui client.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect : Protect stg from Directory container to Cloud Container

Current TSM do not support Protect STG from Directory container to Cloud container. with Cloud Teiring its support Move of the data from directory container to Cloud container, but we dont have a way to only copy of the data. When you dont have lo...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

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