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SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Azure HCI support for SPP

Hallo Please consider support for Azure HCI.
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Most Expedient Full Datacenter Restore from Cloud

The copy to cloud offload feature is used generally as a secondary backup after the initial backup on vSnap and a secondary backup to a vSnap at another site. During the backup process, the changed blocks from the last snapshot are uploaded to the...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Update of SPP image in Azure Market Place to a more recent version

The customer is deploying SPP on prem and in Azure Cloud. While they are at 10.1.15 in their on-prem setup, the image in Azure market place is still at 10.1.11, which is outdated. Request to update the Azure Marketplace image to at least 10.1.14
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

Use proxy server for accessing IBM updates

To enhance security, and keep access to internet to a minimum, a proxy server should be used to obtain fixes and updates. This will allow for automatic updates for systems that are more locked down than usual.
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make GUI less mouse-scrolling-mayham

When working in GUI (I long for a CLi) it is divided into different parts using scrollable text-boxes. No part of GUI seem to be resizable, which makes working in GUI hard. When choosing a SLA I need to scroll the SLA-policy-text-box and if I scro...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve VM Restore GUI

Remove the necessity of choosing "Type of Restore." Make one of the options (on-demand) the default. Add a button to show all available restore points without having to poke around in the calendar.
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CDM: Allow parallel mounts/restores to proxy/remote host (Windows)

CDM should allow and handle right mounting multiple snapshots of same type/application to another host (mount proxy/remote host) at the same time (Windows). Intention is to offload multiple MSSQL Server snapshots in parallel. It seems that OS/SCSI...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration