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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Parallel disk merging and VM Creation during multiple VM restore.

When we initiate multiple VM restore, we have observed that VM creation and disk merging is going in sequential manner. One VM is getting created at a time after disk merging process. Whereas if it is possible to perform parallel VM creation and d...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

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

Spectrum Protect Plus support for MS SQL filestream mode

Bosch is requesting Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) support for Microsoft (MS) SQL filestream mode. SPP should support full and incremental backups and restores of MS SQL databases running in filestream mode.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM File Indexing not available while Configuring VM using NVMe Disk Controller in SPP

While Configuring virtual machine using NVMe Disk Controller from VMware side. VM Backup is successful to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. When using File Restore feature in SPP. File indexing is not available and this is happening because OS's are not ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support of HyperV VM tags to select resources to backup

Ability to select the resources to backup based on VM tags in a HyperV environment (same functionality as for VMware)
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Installation of kubernetes support componentes for ISP Plus from ISP Plus GUI

To install kubernetes backup support for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus access to Kubernetes Cluster node is required on the OS level via ssh.Several steps on the OS level are required to deploy the needed pods into the kubernetes environment.It would ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GPFS instead of ZFS

Instead of ZFS we'd appreciate use of GPFS/Spectrum Scale with Protocols. The IBM Product has all capabilities to ensure a stable and scale-out infrastructure which is supported in all current Kernel Levels.Using GPFS will not have the impact on t...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP monitoring for Ticket

SPP failure alerts support for monitoring tools
over 2 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
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration