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Need a way to move clients between vsnap servers to load balance use of vsnaps

Customer would like the ability to move clients from one vsnap to another to help balance the use of the vsnap servers in their environment.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backups of k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS

We need to be able to protect k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS as that is going to drive our business.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Deleting specific restore points for vms and applications

Release 10.1.7 allows to delete restore points for vm and application backups on a backup job level (for specific job sessions or for all backup jobs of a certail sla policy).More granular restore point deletion options are needed (e.g. delete spe...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP VM Backup report shape

VM backup report : all VMmane and details need to be on 1 line only to be usable for further use of selecting and data filtering. I attached VM_Backup_new_look_proposal.xls file which illustrate how we wish to have it. All build-in reports should ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

postgreSQL Support

PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases. We see this requirement in RFIs.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP physical server Filesystem backup support problem

Need a lot of improvement backing File System backups
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP two-factor authentication

Due to several cyber attacks to many companies. Some SPP clients are requiring a two-factor authentication. Overall in SPP WEB UI and SPP WEB admin UI.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve Retension Policies

Improve SPP retention policies.Make them similar to classic TSM. (1) Option to always keep last X copies - this means that if the backup fails to run, it does not expire your existing backups. We have been in a situation where SPP was down for 2 w...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

High availability support for vsnap

VSNAP and VADP proxy high availability (clustering ) support. We need to extend the clustering support already available for SPP server to VADP Proxies and Vsnap servers, in combination with HW storage sharing
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration