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Storage Protect Family

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Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
12 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Configure TSM4VE without SP Admin Access

IBM Storage Protect is a popular Service Provider product and it is possible to buy backup functionality using IBM Storage Protect as a backup engine. But all of them is created to only run old legacy backup like installing client in the operating...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

(See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Please, enhance ISP command to add option for does not check affinity IDs.

Why is it useful? We expect to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media] (LTO) to another NAS storage system.However, this operation is not possible and we receive error code "ANR1766E" because the...
19 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Use raid or erasure coding when storing data on tape

As tape media grows in size, the loss on one tape, maybe 40Tb of data, can be a very harmful. Data should be stored on tapes using erasure coding or raid5 technology. Then data can be recovered and the lost tape can be regenerated. This will great...
17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.13 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

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