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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    Spectrum Protect Plus - hardware snapshot integration with Power and x86

    Spectrum Protect Plus does not support storage hardware snapshot technology and the integration with Power VS and x86.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    add a NetApp Snapshot based backup and restore functionality to SPP

    Addition of a function to secure NetApp file server with SPP on vSnap server. This should be done on the basis of NetApp snapshots. The feature should be able to replace the current Spectrum Protect feature for NetApp data protection at the file l...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    add NetApp SnapVault Scheduling and File Indexing to SPP

    In Spectrum Protect Plus it should be possible to trigger NetApp SnapVault snapshots to NetApp Secondary Storage Systems on Prem or on Cloud and to list existing snapshots and index the files they contain. Possible restores should also be triggere...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Add support for NFS v4 on vSnap Servers to close Vulnerabilities issues caused by NFS v3

    Customer is having SPP 10.1.7 and Security team runs multiple Vulnerability Scan multiple times a year and they have identified vulnerability on vSnap servers related to NFS version. Current NFS version of the vSnap file system is V3. Can we inclu...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Provide SPP GUI Server for more platforms than VMWare and Hyper-V

    The central Spectrum Protect Plus management server can be deployed as a virtual machine on VMWare or Hyper-V. But there are customers that want to protect workloads like Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, DB2, Mongo DB etc. with Spectrum Protect Plus, wh...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Add Azure native VM snapshots support to SPP

    As of March 2021 SPP on Azure is capable to backup some DBs on Azure, but not VMson Azure.Add support for VMs will give SPP on Azure similar functionality comparing to SPP on premise
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Adding a vSnap to 2 SPP appliances

    The current Spectrum Protect Plus topology allows only one management (Spectrum Protect Plus VM) appliance to connect vSnaps.We should be able to add a vSnap to 2 different Spectrum Protect Plus appliances.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Automatic update check should be disabled

    We want the current versions not to be searched automatically when we enter the administrative interface, A button can be placed for this and only those who want to upgrade over the internet can use this feature.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

    We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

    We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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