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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Restart failed backup

SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow file-indexing without sudo(root) on Linux VM's or local admin id on Windows VM's

System: Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.8Request: Need new feature on SPP to allow file-indexing on on Windows VM's with out a local admin account on the VM and on Linux VM's without granting sudo(root) all access on the VM.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

SPP - Option for Non-memory Snapshot

By default SPP always takes a memory snapshot.Although SPP has the option to disable VSS (Quiesced Snapshot), it doesn not have the option to disable a memory snapshot.We NEED the option to disable memory snapshot for some VMs which cannot be snap...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Global Exclude List

We are after a Global Exclude list of VMs that we can use to exclude VMs across ALL SLA Policies in SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multitenancy, support for multiple AD/ldap

SPP need support for Multitenancy and ability to add multiple AD/ldap (Under System->LDAP/SMTP) so MSPs can protect multiple customers with one SPP solution and let customer decide which users/groups should have access to what in SPP.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Centralized Configuration Management for SPP Server

Provide option of centralized configuration management for SPP when using multiple SPP Servers.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus - hardware snapshot integration with Power and x86

Spectrum Protect Plus does not support storage hardware snapshot technology and the integration with Power VS and x86.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore "not backed up disks" as empty disks in VMWare

Following DR Scenario:VM with a database on it. We backup only the root and opt Disks using VMware backup, DB and log gets backed up using SPP DB Backup. 4 disks:Hard Disk 1 --> rootvg (SCSI0:0) backupHard Disk 2 --> dbvg (SCSI0:1) no backup...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration