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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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

SPP CA certificate update using CLI

Providence Healthcare is requesting the the CA Certificate can be updated via the CLI on the system.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

XLS output from scheduled VM Backup history report

Scheduled report which is sending by e-mail is not possible to generate it in XLS format. It is normally possible to chose between xls and pdf format by instant (not scheduled) report run only.
about 4 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...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 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

Provide AWS image for SPP server

It is currently not possible to deploy the SPP server in AWS. The SPP vSnap can be deployed in AWS, but this require an on-prem SPP server (or a SPP server deployed in VMware Cloud on AWS). An AWS specific SPP AMI image is required.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Backup catalog/database to different site

Have the possibility to backup the catalog and SPP database to another site as the SPP server. Example, we backup now everuthing to the primary site. But for disaster recovery it would be nice to have the possibility to backup the catalogs (and SP...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Support for SP container pool storage tiering in SPP

For customers performing storage tiering between directory and cloud container pools within SP, they would like to SPP to be aware and support this functionality. For now data that has been tiered affect the primary source pool and prevent it from...
over 5 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 vSnap Storage Utilization report needs to run Storage Server Inventory Job automatically

When the Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting generates a report for vSnap Storage Utilization it does not use the vSnap Storage statistics from the moment the report is generated. Instead it uses the statistics of the last run of the Storage Server In...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered