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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus SLA removal options

When removing SLA in Spectrum Protect Plus the following options should be presented:1. Delete now2. Preserve until retention expires3. Retention hold
about 3 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
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 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...
almost 5 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.
almost 4 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.
over 4 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 4 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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add root cause Db2 messages to job log in SPP

When a DB2 restore job in SPP fails, the DB2 message including the root cause of this failure is not shown in the job log. And therefore not on the ISPP gui itself. For finding the cause why the job failed, you need to logon to the ISPP server, di...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus File level Restores

Spectrum Protect Plus Restoration and cataloging not very user friendly.It would be nice if you can select and tick the folders and files you want restored. similar to Spectrum Protect (TSM) & Backup Exec and other backup software.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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