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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Restore by Tag

Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SQL Service User per SQL instance

We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP micro version

We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP Should keep job logs for restores longer

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus keeps job logs for restores only 3 days. This is not sufficient for historical reporting purposes. The retention of job logs, including those for restore operations should be user-configurable, and the default should be s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP during Resouce Registration have option to sign to resource group

During customer Meeting, it was asked if during registration of resource they could have the ability to assign resource to a resource group
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration