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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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spectrum Protect Plus reports is missing

Requests to add to the report's data of who performed the recovery.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup data from ESX host without vcenter

Spectrum Protect Plus requires vcenter in virtual machine backups.But not every customer has vCenter, their virtual environment only runs on the ESX host.In addition, many backup products can take backups from the ESX host without the need for vce...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Archive feature for S3 compatible devices

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus supports Amazon S3 Glacier to archive backup data.But for S3 compatible devices it only supports standard object storage buckets not archive.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/does-ibm-spectrum-protect-plus-support-s3-comp...
over 4 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
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Support for Dataguard

We would like to use SPP to backup our Oracle Databases. Most of the areas at the city will be moving to Dataguard later this year. If this is not supported then we cannot use SPP for this.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve SPP Scheduler

Scheduler is not enough flexible. Need an enhanced-like tsm schdeduler. Case :a VM can be backuped by differents Sla's, with theirs own retention and start time. we need :- to add some exclusions (exclude a soecific hour, day, week, month , exclud...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

need tape disaster recovery ability for Spectrum Protect Plus

Enable Spectrum Protect to be a disaster recovery target for Spectrum Protect Plus.This would provide tape based disaster recovery of Spectrum Protect Plus.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Dynamic Workload Re-Balancing between vSnaps in a single site

More dynamic workload distribution would be a great feature to add into SPP. For example vSnap 1 is 75% full and newly added vSnap 2 is 5% full therefore migrate some of the existing snapshots (base and incremental) to vSnap 2 for dynamic workload...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

GUI Audit Log Improvements

Streamline GUI Audit logging. It's a little noisy which makes it a challenge to seek out legitimate events. There are also basic critical events/actions that should be included which appear to be missing.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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