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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

File Indexing - Change default SSH port 22

For file indexing restore the SSH service must be running on port 22 on the server. Please add an ability to change default SSH port 22 to other.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under 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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Add Report in Spectrum Protect Plus for daily growth of each vSnap server

One of our Enterprise customer want to know via Report - daily growth of each vSnap server (he has 6 vSnap Servers)
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP report creation

Spectrum Protect Plus has very interesting reports, but we need some individual views in virtual machine backup. We need to know, for example, the time and end of the backup of a respective VM individually and not just the time that the total SLA ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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
almost 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)
almost 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 ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration