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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP File restore selection and Progress

SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP: NAT connection trough dedicated vLAN

SPP server has configured NAT with additional 3 network IP's. The same vLAN's are configured in the vSNAP server + proxy combo (IBM appliance).During Backup/Restore operation SPP communicate with client with correct IP (different than managment). ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

SPP re-catalog from vSnap content (consistency audit)

Ability for SPP server to populate/crosscheck its catalog information based on Vsnap content. Just like an audit to ensure that everything that is stored on Vsnap is known in the catalog, plus the ability to register images found on vSnap which wo...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP reporting for Daily, Monthly backup status

SPP reporting has currently some good reports but there is no report with clear Backup completion report.
over 2 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...
over 3 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...
over 3 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.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable more than 1 LDAP server for authentication because it is a single point of failure

System: SPP server 10.1.8Feature: Currently the SPP server only allows for 1 LDAP server entry. This is a single point of failure. There is no redundancy, if that single LDAP server is down there is no way for the team to log-in, because we do not...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration