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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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CDM appliance self-monitoring

The functionality of the CDM processes themselves should be monitored on the appliance and the possibility to receive alerts when the main CDM program has problems.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP native restore to VSI on IBM Cloud

Many OnPrem VMWare environments require both backup to IBM Cloud using Spectrum Protect Plus and a non-urgent form of DR plan using IBM Cloud components. Currently this is only possible using Bare Metal options. SPP should be natively able to rest...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo SSl / TLS

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo client agent does not have support for SSL or TLS security keys. Please add SSL /TLS security function to the Mongo agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

S3 Interface to SPP

The IT industry gets faster and faster and new tools get quicker implemented and all of them normally have a Restful API you can use to communicate with the new applications I have fully understanding that IBM can't support all new applications an...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Need ability to hold a VADP proxy idle, in reserve, to quickly run ad-hoc jobs (or expedite/prioritise job to head of queue).

We have SLAs that run snapshot backups of VMs, each night. These jobs queue hundreds of VMs to have snapshots taken, and it takes hours for these to complete. Any adhoc snapshot or restore job that we launch during this backup window has to wait h...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide Splunk Integration for Spectrum Protect Plus

Allow SPP audit logs and VSNAP logs to be forwarded to Splunk or another platform for easier monitoring.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP monthly storage & billling report

Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Add ability to restore drives over original location

Customer would like to have the option to restore a drive directly over the original drive. Currently the only option is to restore the drive and have it mounted along side the original drive.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Exclude VMs from Sources Protected number.

If I tag a VM with something like ‘no_backup' or just don't include it in an SLA it is still counted in the total number of VMs protected. There are some VMs (desktops, Citrix, Web, etc) where you may have a single configuration server and then ma...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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