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Storage Protect Family

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Storage Protect Storage Agent should report all issue to the Storage Protect server activitiy log

We run into a LANfree backup issue. Diagnosing the issue took a long time because the STA was not reporting the drive failures into the SP server activity log. Environment: SP AIX library manager (LM) server 8.1.21.0, SP server name LIBMGR. SP AIX...

Support for native velero v1.14 backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

Currently Velero v1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] and IBM are currently not supporting this. To support this code changes to storage protect object agent side are needed.
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

AI Based Replication Window Recommendation to Avoid Load on IBM Storage Protect Server

There can be situations when source and target replication servers are not in sync. Causing delay in replication process to end. May be because the specific window of replication used was not enough to replicate source data to target server. Or th...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

dsmadmc login prompt when using MFA

When logging in to dsmadmc having MFA activated on the account you do not get any indication on the password prompt that this is active. Suggestion either have a message that you need to enter password plus mfa code Or Rather Present the mfa passw...

Support of X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] in SP Object Agent

We backup up native Kubernetes workload with native Velero to SP Object Agent. Since Velero Version 1.13 the backup to SP Object Agent is not working anymore. Velero 1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-...
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

OSSM data offload to tape via stgrule

We need air-gaped copy of all our data stored in directory pool containers. Almost half of the data is OSSM, however storagerule actiontype=copy does not offload OSSM data to cpoy pool.
17 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-...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration