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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Migration of Data/Backups between VSnaps

In backup operations, it is becoming increasingly apparent that existing backup jobs are growing larger and larger, reaching the limits of a VSNAP. Adding new VSNAPs only helps new backup jobs or distributes existing backups to different VSNAPs. A...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes and values.Service request number: 10814,999,846
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running

Similar to the CLI (OS) command vsnap_status on the vSnap server provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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.
almost 4 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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting using VM Tagging

Customer would like to expand the SPP reporting by using VMware Tagging.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Implement different "log options" for serviceability

SPP currently only offers one "log download" option, which always includes the vSnaps & VADP logs and a lot of SPP GUI logs.In larger envirnments with a few vSnaps & VADPs, we've seen those support packages grow to 6GB and take longer than...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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 ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

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 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration