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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP - Support Incremental Backup of Exchange DBs on ReFS

Customer has recently replaced Commvault with IBM SPP. Only Full Exchange backups are working as the customer is using ReFS.Also, since SPP is using VSS of the Exchange Server, backup of the 2nd Exchange DB cannot be started unless the backup of f...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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

SPP Migrate Offloaded Data between different Cloud Providers

Spectrum Protect Plus should provide a functionality to migrate offloaded backups between cloud providers.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for vCloud Director

We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 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

DB2 on zLinux backup & restore

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

Official support for the Workaround of disabled EFS (Encrypted File System) for Exchange DAG restore operations is needed

In our environment, activating the EFS is not allowed. If EFS is not enabled, the restore of Exchange DAG databases does not work. IBM has provided us with a workaround where a JSON file (SPAgent_cfg.json) is placed in the directory "C:\Program Fi...
over 2 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

Support for KVM

We see more and more activity where people are leaving VMware for something that are better and cheaper. So we see more offend companies that want to replace VMware with KVM/oVirt so they can combine it with Openstack or similar automated hypervisor.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Backup Direct to Tape

Need the ability for clients to leverage existing infrastructure such as tape libraries they have bought and allow Spectrum Protect Plus to offload directly to tape.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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