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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 3, 2019

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Improving offload hardware requirement efficiency

Hi,
Currently, when an SPP customer would like to have a copy on tapes, he has 2 alternatives:
1. copy mode - to have additional storage space in the ISP server (as directory container) to allow incremental copies. that requires twice the capacity in terms of storage. so if the customer is 2PB (Vsnap aggregate capacity for a single site), then the customer will need to purchase 2 additional PB. that puts SPP out of the game in the customer's eyes when the competition starts with alternative products. that's killing the deal in terms of ROI immediately.

2. the second option is to use Archive, which can only run once a week, and takes full, undeduped copy of the VSNAP pool to tapes,that means the same customer with 2PB of data will need to allocate for each archive operation hundreds of tapes, insert them to the library an so on every week. comparing to the alternative competition which allows taking a single version point in time copy to tape (instead of the entire pool). that is also a deal killer in terms of trying to get into new customers.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 25, 2020

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

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