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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP| exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup

In SPP for VM snapshot base backup, exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup. End user want to exclude there application/DB folder (one/more than one folder or particular extension for file like .mdf,.ldf)
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

IBM SPP vSnap Seeding from a Remote Site

Customer with Remote Offices need a way to seed initial backups in the local vSNAP server with the centralised HQ rather than waiting for data to transfer over the WAN links.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP report backup data stored and transferred for each VM machine in XLS and SCV output format for selected time frame.

Our customer is charged for transferred and stored backup data. We are missing option to schedule report with option to select time frame. At best to have output in XLS and mainly SCV format which can be imported to SACR (Smart Automated Capacity ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide SPP report download in .csv format

Customer would like to be able to download reports from SPP in .csv format.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Proactive alerting

Proactive alerts setup to alert when CPU, memory, configuration catalog, recovery catalog and file catalog are reaching 75%+ to flag more resources will be required shortly.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

3 sites Support

Hi, we are receiving requirements about 3 Site Support. It is very necessary for our Customer. This a mandatory requirement from regulator.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

better LDAP and MS AD integration in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Better and easier integration of LDAP, especially complex Microsoft Active Directory for Spectrum Protect Plus. The functionality and setting options are currently too limited.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Show which backup is full and which is incremental as listed

Spectrum Protect Plus backs up as first full and then incremental forever. In some cases CBT can be erased so SPP needs to take full backup.We can see if the backup is full or incremental on the backup job logs.But we need to examine all the backu...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Make Spectrum Protect Plus IPv6 compliant

Spectrum Protect Plus only works with IPv4.If only IPv6 is enabled than SPP is not working (loses connection to his VDAP storage by example).So can you make SPP IPv6 compliant.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration