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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Spectrum Protect Plus Proxy and vSnap on Power Linux

Require support for Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap server and VADP Proxy on Linux based on Power servers.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Chargeback reporting in SPP (Pre/Post Dedup/Compression)

There is a similar RFE from a US customer but their requirements seem to differ slightly: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119247 Request from customer on chargeback reporting in SPP. This is a requirement f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP does not report "Missed" backups

SPP does not report "Missed" backups.If a backup is attempted and fails, this is reported in the job logs and can be reported on in the generate reports.However, if a job does not run on schedule (e.g. SPP is down, job has been paused for maintena...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backup

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backupWe need an option to change expiration date for already taken backup to desired value. For example to change it to expire in 1 year instead of 1 month with which it was taken.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Use proxy server for accessing IBM updates

To enhance security, and keep access to internet to a minimum, a proxy server should be used to obtain fixes and updates. This will allow for automatic updates for systems that are more locked down than usual.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

Support for VMware vCloud Director

When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add VM Backup Success Rate to GUI

The current "Success Rate" percentage shown in the GUI is misleading.It shows the success rate of jobs. Jobs include backup, restore, replication, inventory and maintenance jobs.If 1 job (with 5 VMs) fails and 1 job (with 500 VMs) succeeds, the su...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Dedup enabled on replication

The request is for deduplication being enabled when replicating between different vsnap repository
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP PLUS support for SHAREPOINT witH SQL

Customer would like to have an application support for SHAREPOINT environemnt, backing up the VM with SP PLUS.SHAREPOINT is used with SQL 2017 database.Not yet with O365.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Prevent Maintenance Tasks from reporting a warning when behaving as expected.

SPP can display events in the maintenance task, such as snapshots locked because of dependencies, as a warning in the summary dashboard. These however are expected behaviour with no action required. Displaying such events as a warning can be misle...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration