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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 10, 2021

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Spectrum Protect Plus direct archive to on-prem COS

Archive in an SPP SLA policy is only available to cloud services (ICOS, AWS, etc). I am requesting that the archive function in SPP allow for S3 connectivity to on-prem COS. I have a similar request in ID#151074.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 11, 2021

    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.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 17, 2021

    Del,

    I think you hit the nail on the head ! My use of the word ARCHIVE does mean a full copy, hopefully immutable. Your comment regarding "retention vaults" put some ideas in our heads... we are doing some research on that. Any links you can provide for additional research would be helpful.

    Please set up a call when Petra returns and we can discuss further.

    -Steve

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 13, 2021

    What additional information can we provide ?

    Speaking with our Spectrum Protect Technical Specialist TEAM from IBM, we understand that the ARCHIVE function in an SPP SLA is intended for glacier storage in a cloud service (IBM, Amazon, etc). I believe what we are asking for is the same functionality for the on-prem COS (without tape drives), and/or any S3-capable storage. I would prefer the on-prem COS only because we have invested into this technology.

    The work-arounds to get an immutable copy to our on-prem COS work. The ability to leverage the ARCHIVE function in SPP with what we have is our goal.

    Renaming ARCHIVE to GLACIER/CLOUD would help avoid confusion in a future release.

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