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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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

Enable option to manually add ESXi host for restore onto

Restore function request – Recover to ESXi host - should option to manually add rather than just poll inventorised ESXi hosts
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable the setting of a VM name on clone and production restores

Enable the ability to set a VM name on clone and production restores and on move into production and clone operations for active clones (test restores)
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

VM details in Dashboard

Show list of VMs protected and SLA protected under and VMs not protected as a list in the Dashboard. Customers want to know which VMs have successfully backed up overnight and which have failed. The Dashboard does a good job of showing this at an ...
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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

SQL log backup status

The status of the SQL log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. The Dashboard or on the section named Application - SQL - Backup would be helpful.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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

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.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

ISPP: Support btrfs - Single file restore & File indexing

We see a huge lack of compatibility in ISPP for ALL Suse customers worldwide.currently btfrs is not supported, which will cause two main issues:- Fileindexing is not supported, so direct single file restore is not possible- If you do an "instant a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSNAP space reclamation

Currently, when a pool's capacity decreases ie by the expiration of backups, the vSNAP server doesn't seem to issue any kind of zero-ing or SCSI Unmap command to let the underlying infrastructure reclaim the space.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

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