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Support AWS PrivateLink for S3 bucket in Spectrum Protect

We use AWS PrivateLink, which allows AWS customers to send data to S3 over a site-to-site VPN and their VPC, instead of going over the public internet. AWS PrivateLink works by giving customers a personalized DNS address, which can be used to acce...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Proactive support service within Operations Center

Operations Center Proactive Support with Health monitor and Advisor.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

2 TB limit for VMware VMDK file backup

VMDK files with 2 TB or more cannot be backed up by the TSM client. The limit seems to be hardcoded. When will TSM support VMDK files with 2 TB or more?
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Pod placement on OCP infra nodes

Ability to schedule BaaS/SPP components inside Kubernetes/Openshift environments into dedicated nodes, based on placement rules.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make the dashboard more focused on showing information and enabling actions at a per VM and application level

The product needs to be a lot more VM and application centric from a management perspective. What end users would like is backup information per VM and application in the dashboard, a list of VMs and applications showing when each VM and applicati...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Require HTTPS for Spectrum Protect Web Client

Currently only HTTP works when using the Backup-Archive Web Client. US Bancorp requires this communication to be transmitted over HTTPS due to Federal audit requirements. We know that the data is not sent in clear text, but the auditors don't, so ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Replication hung sessions are not getting cancelled on source and target TSM automatically after network disruptions

Replication sessions are getting hung due to network disruption and those sessions are not getting cancelled when the network issue is resolved. It took almost 4 hours for those sessions to get cancelled by TSM server which delayed DR replication ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Provide Splunk Integration for Spectrum Protect Plus

Allow SPP audit logs and VSNAP logs to be forwarded to Splunk or another platform for easier monitoring.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM for VE 'Monthlies' 'Yearlies'

Multiple different schedules and retentions are not supported when using the TSM for VE vsphere plugin or web client (or generally). This means a customer must create separate servers in order to keep a 'monthly' set of data for a year, otherwise ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Manual Installation SPP Plus Client

File System Inventory Failing to complete over the WAN. According to support this could due the low network bandwidth between the SPP Server and the remote client. I ask a procedure to manually install the client on the remote server and Support a...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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