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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Need the ability to seed initial data from source vSnap to target replication vSnap

A customer has requested the ability to physically send a copy of data on external media from the source vSnap to the site that has the target replication vSnap for ingest rather than send the data over their network. They would like to do this to...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - bring greater visibility on data and metadata if both do not match

TS003754429It was recommended for a RFE to be opened to give greater visibility into what is on the vSNAPs matches what is in the SPP database/catalog.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for nested LDAP groups and a test LDAP function

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups and enable a test function for LDAP setup
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester

Restore functionality – Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Search for VM backup status

On a regular basis we are asked 'did my VM backup' or 'how long did my VM backup take'. There is currently no way of searching for his information directly within the SPP GUI, instead job logs have to be downloaded as a CSV and imported into excel...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Only restore blocks needed for VM restore

Customer has requested if it would be possible to only recover the needed blocks to restore a VM back to a desired point in time. Customer stated that in previous tools this was the method used and that it reduced the time needed to do a restore. ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSnap needs to be more resilient for out of storage space scenarios

If vSnap storage runs out of space, the underlying zfs filesystem should be resilient enough to stop and restart without inconsistencies once additional storage is added.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP RESTORE PRODUCTION

Our vmware team found a problem using the production restore method. They saw that just before the final step of the process, SPP makes vcenter delete the original virtual machine so that it could create the new one with the same unique identifier...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow SLA associations to survive the move of associated guests from one hypervisor to another

possibility to migrate VM's between different vCenter systems. In this case today SPP track this as a new VM, but it is not a new VM it's the same as before.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Option to select files to restore from a directory tree view

SPP to allow file-level restore not just by searching for files or folder, but also by expanding a directory tree to input multiple selections
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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