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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP should disable vSphere storage vMotion during backup

If vSphere storage vMotion is performed during SPP VM backup there may be left orphaned VMDK files on datastores. This causes operational problems for customers
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Test ISPP with Linux 8.5

For ISPP server we have currently Linux version of 7.X and Linux team is planning to upgrade to RedHat Linux version 8.5 and they cant go for 8.4 as it has security vulnerability Please advice correct version of ISPP which is compatible with for L...
over 2 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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to leverage existing storage replication relationships

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management for SAP/HANA environment
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 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

Support for VMware vCloud Director

When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Application Inventory Job Change Report/Alert

An Oracle database that exists on the database server is no longer being found or displayed in SPP. This is not considered a failure, so no reporting is provided. Customer needs an alert or report to see the changes to the inventory job. The parti...
about 3 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

VM job reports

Spectrum Protect Plus reports don't meet our requirements.We can see if backups completed without any fails in the last 24 hour. Also VM SLA report can show us if VMs are in compliance. But it's not enough.There must be a report which shows if all...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration