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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Update vSnaps over SPP GUI / Dashboard

We would like to be able to update one or more vSnaps through the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI / Dashboard.Currently we have to update the vSnaps manually via the cli on the vSnap server itself.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Customization of LDAP authentication in Spectrum Protect software

When using Spectrum Protect Plus with LDAP authentication, the group parameter that is queried is hard coded (objectClass=group).This objectClass "group" is not present on all LDAP servers.Please allow customization of group attribute (like object...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP within the Federal Market

Within the Federal Market, we are unable to sell Spectrum Protect Plus as it uses the CentOS as its base OS. CentOS is not able go through the DOD Security Technical Implementation Guide process (STIG) to identify vulnerabilities for the OS or the...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable individual throttling for Replication and Cloud copy jobs. Also add support for Internet Proxy for Cloud offloads.

We use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offload (copy) to Cloud feature in addition to Replication (another copy) to a IBM Spectrum Protect (classic) repository server for a subsequent tape backup. Due to a huge volume of data already being backed up by ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance High Availability

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance holds critical Data to backup and restore VMs. At present there is no way to make this Highly Available (HA) similar to Vsphere appliance. During normal operation we should be able to: Switch to secondary site and s...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP micro version

We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add "Warning" to VM Backup History Report

Add "Warning" to List of Status Parameters in VM Backup History Report.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to install Vintela on SPP + VSNAP servers for user access

The customer would like to have the ability to install Vintela on the SPP and VSNAP servers in their environment. This is to grant access to the team that supports SPP without having to give out the superuser or create a local account for each per...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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