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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP GUI integrated in SP OC

if SPP Vsnap will have a direct integration with SP, GUIs should also be integrated. This integration could be show as only one product with different features.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support for SQL on Linux

SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

File Recovery Options in SPP

Client expects more innovative and easy to use features when it comes to file recovery in SPP. Customer expect modern software to be as easy to use as an iPhone! Non Indexed VM:It should be possible to recover files from a non-indexed VM. Function...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Login with certificates during file indexing on Linux

Case number: TS000844605 Customer REQUIRES use of certificates when logging into the Linux environment, currently SPP does not support login with certificates during indexing of files.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under 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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup & Restore of NSX network interfaces/Tags using Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for VE

Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments need to include the option ofbackup/restore of VMware NSX virtual networking devices and its Security Tags into the VMare VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infras...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Linux File Indexing without Root

We have not been able to expand use of SPP in our environment because Operating System Admins are unwilling to grant us accounts with root-level privileges. Can we get a list of the commands that SPP uses that require root-level permissions? The t...
over 1 year 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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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