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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Provide AWS image for SPP server

It is currently not possible to deploy the SPP server in AWS. The SPP vSnap can be deployed in AWS, but this require an on-prem SPP server (or a SPP server deployed in VMware Cloud on AWS). An AWS specific SPP AMI image is required.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Option to perform manual full backup of VMs

We need an option to override the incremental forever and force a (new) full backup of VMs.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SPP CA certificate update using CLI

Providence Healthcare is requesting the the CA Certificate can be updated via the CLI on the system.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SP+ Syslog alerting

Please add an ability to have events sent via syslog messages to external receivers. There should be an ability to include select informational events for login/logout security auditing as well as backup and restore events.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

Allow more flexible retention polices

Currently the SLA Policies only allow retnetion period in days. The customer would like to set retention period in weeks, months, years or indefinitely.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

Support for SP container pool storage tiering in SPP

For customers performing storage tiering between directory and cloud container pools within SP, they would like to SPP to be aware and support this functionality. For now data that has been tiered affect the primary source pool and prevent it from...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SPP vSnap Storage Utilization report needs to run Storage Server Inventory Job automatically

When the Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting generates a report for vSnap Storage Utilization it does not use the vSnap Storage statistics from the moment the report is generated. Instead it uses the statistics of the last run of the Storage Server In...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SP Protect Plus support for backing up DB installed in power LPARS

to accelerate the SP Protect plus adoption in customers is required that the product be able to backup DataBases running in Power AIX Logical Partitions.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Ability to Schedule report

Ability to define scheduling of Reports in SPP 10.1.2
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Plus Logging

Having only the GUI to see which backups are currently running or having only the Reports after a successful backup, I'd appreciate to get the Information displayed as well using the REST API or commandline.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

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