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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

SPP to backup resources (metadata) from Kubernetes, not only pv, by namespaces

We need support for backup of a namespace being not only able to backup and restore PV but also secrets, ConfigMaps, deployments, routes, services. of a Kubernetes namespace
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Manually select a specific snapshot and offload for long-term retention

Manually select a specific backup/snapshot and offload it for long-term retention.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide vCenter Plugin for Spectrum Protect Plus

ISPP is completely missing a vCenter plugin like ISP for VE. This is usually used by VMWare administrators and VM users to trigger ad hoc backups and restores by themselves. As ISPP is missing this plugin, this is not possible when moving from ISP...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSnap – zfs enhancements

vSnaps of SPP are build with zfs. zfs provides management capabilities like enlarging virtual disks, moving data from one virtual disk to another, .... standard LVM stuff vSnap does not support.The only mechanism vSnap support is "add virtual disk...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Stream Audit Log entries Spectrum Protect Plus

It should be possible to stream the Spectrum Protect Plus audit log to a central collector, much like Syslog. At the moment it's only possible to download the audit log (or parts of it) using HTTP or the REST API.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for KVM

We see more and more activity where people are leaving VMware for something that are better and cheaper. So we see more offend companies that want to replace VMware with KVM/oVirt so they can combine it with Openstack or similar automated hypervisor.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Introduce Data mobility - Ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another

Introduce Data mobility i.e. the ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another.This is so data can be easily managed and vSnap servers retired and added in an easier fashion
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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