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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Spectrum Protect Plus support MariaDB

Important pubic sector in Spain (Andalucia sub-region) has decided to use "Maria DB" as new Data Base (replacing Oracle).Some customers in that public sector loves SPP for future Containers, VMs and Aplication Data Protection but they really need ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Activities history (audits).

Hallo As we see, practically, there is no user (admin) activity logs in the SPP. It is not possible for example, to track, who and when apply or remove SLA from VM or application. It would be nice to have activities list for different operations, ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Additional SPP Support for Oracle XE Version

Backup by SPP not possible for Oracle XE: Oracle Database 18c Express Edition Release 18.0.0.0.0
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Predicting/built-in intelligence

Today there are many repeatable task and manual human interaction to administer Spectrum Protect/Spectrum Protect Plus software. Examples: adjusting space reclamation, validate database backups, copy storage pool, protect storage pool processes, r...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to install Vintela on SPP + VSNAP servers for user access

The customer would like to have the ability to install Vintela on the SPP and VSNAP servers in their environment. This is to grant access to the team that supports SPP without having to give out the superuser or create a local account for each per...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add support for NFS v4 on vSnap Servers to close Vulnerabilities issues caused by NFS v3

Customer is having SPP 10.1.7 and Security team runs multiple Vulnerability Scan multiple times a year and they have identified vulnerability on vSnap servers related to NFS version. Current NFS version of the vSnap file system is V3. Can we inclu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Azure native VM snapshots support to SPP

As of March 2021 SPP on Azure is capable to backup some DBs on Azure, but not VMson Azure.Add support for VMs will give SPP on Azure similar functionality comparing to SPP on premise
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus direct archive to on-prem COS

Archive in an SPP SLA policy is only available to cloud services (ICOS, AWS, etc). I am requesting that the archive function in SPP allow for S3 connectivity to on-prem COS. I have a similar request in ID#151074.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

vSnap implement HA feature - automated failover

Implement an automated failover for vSnap component:When having multiple vSnaps in one Site and one vSnap fails, the other vSnaps won't automatically stand in and pick up the backup jobs. This causes a service outage which is not acceptable. Of co...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration