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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Spectrum Protect Plus - Office365 support needed

Office 365 is for 4Q18/1H19 on roadmap, support needed in Q42018customer has Office 365 in place and need local backup, if Protect Plus will not be available in Q418 he will look at CommVault
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Backup of an Individual VM in an SLA Policy

Customer requires the ability to backup an individual VM in an SLA.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

Ability to schedule maintenance policy

Allow user to modify the time at which the maintenance policy will be started. An acceptable workaround would be to change the start time via a REST API call.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Allow SPP catalog restores from COS or SP

Spectrum Protect Plus stores the metadata information in a catalog which can be backed up to a vSnap repository. This information can not be stored on COS or an ISP server. This would end up in non-discoverable information in the event of the whol...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SPP patches released should contain readme for changes and fixes included with patch level

A customer who was instructed to apply SPP patch 1 (287) inquired as to the fixes or changes within patch 1 and was not able to locate a readme file with a list of changes for these patches. This readme or list of documented changes will help a cu...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SPP archive to on-prem COS

Archive to on-prem COS: Our team uses Spectrum Protect Plus for VMWare incremental backups to COS vaults without issue. In one policy, incremental backups are taken daily and kept for 7 days. The archive feature in any SPP policy only allows for a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Report of unprotected VMs

Dashboard and "Protected VMs" report on which VMs are protected and it also reports on number of unprotected VMs but not which VMs are unprotected.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Option to perform manual full backup of VMs

We need an option to override the incremental forever and force a (new) full backup of VMs.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Immutable feature on Object storage

We would like to keep the backup data that we copied on cloud as immutable.This means that the data will remain indelible for the period we set.Thus, we can protect our data from attacks such as hackers who intentionally want to delete them.Spectr...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered