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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Support DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Plus

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus works perfectly with DB2 databases. Unfortunately for all our critical databases, which are replicated using DB2 HADR, backup and restore with Spectrum Protect Plus is currently not supported.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

DB2 on zLinux backup & restore

Request for Spectrum Protect Plus to backup and restore DB2 databases running under zLinux
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Direct Offload to Spectrum Protect

Enable the direct offload to Spectrum Protect without the requirement to have a copy of the data offloaded in the vSnap.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Introduce support for AD objects & containers

Introduce support for AD objects & containers
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Manually select a specific snapshot and offload for long-term retention

Manually select a specific backup/snapshot and offload it for long-term retention.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide vCenter Plugin for Spectrum Protect Plus

ISPP is completely missing a vCenter plugin like ISP for VE. This is usually used by VMWare administrators and VM users to trigger ad hoc backups and restores by themselves. As ISPP is missing this plugin, this is not possible when moving from ISP...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSnap – zfs enhancements

vSnaps of SPP are build with zfs. zfs provides management capabilities like enlarging virtual disks, moving data from one virtual disk to another, .... standard LVM stuff vSnap does not support. The only mechanism vSnap support is "add virtual dis...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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