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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Spectrum Protect Plus Lucene DB maintenance option

I require an option within Spectrum Protect Plus that that will given me the ability to either reset the Lucene db (like drop the entire DB) or remove file indexing entries older than x days) This would give me the flexibilty to better control wha...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Trigger email/report when sla run contains failed vms

If a job that has run contains failed vms, sytem should send out email/report to pre-defined address to report this incident.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Need expanded reporting capabilities in SPP

Customer is unable to do true custom reporting to get reports that are meaningful to their business units. Currently there are only the canned reports in PDF format available. Customer would like to have the ability to build out reports in a simil...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

The replication vSnap needs to be on a VPN

The issue is not the existence of that replication partner, the issue is the NAT. The following happens: 1. vSnap1 connects to vSnap-VADP host name and requests the IP interfaces to connect to 2. vsnap-vadp check in the list of its network interfa...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP progress on Job's

SPP does not show any proper progress details like for other admin job's
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Hard to find target host/cluster for VM restore when many hosts/clusters available

The restore of a VM to an alternate host becomes very problematic when many hosts are available. The customer I am working with has an environment that creates a list page count of over 800 in the restore UI of SPP. It won't be possible to find th...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow a global exclude for a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Adding additional Global Preferences for Default Restore Job

Since Version 10.1.5, when doing a restore, you can choose between "default setup" and "advanced setup". For the user doing a restore, the default setup should automatically use the most common values. In our customers environment, this would for ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP Updated Reporting

Currently the reporting in Spectrum Protect Plus needs a bit of work. Couple of requests i would like to make.1. The ability to have all sizes in the same format. IE everything in bytes, MB,GB,TB etc.The reason for this is then the ability to sort...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP default policy creation after software upgrade

At initial install some SLA policies are created by default. I have no containers and Amazon EC2 instances to protect, so I don't need the default policies "Container" and "EC2" and have deleted both policies. But they are recreated after every sy...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect