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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Change default to Power On VM for clone and production restores

Restore functionality - Power on VM - Production & clone restore powers on Shouldn't be default to power on as Power On VM was not ticked. Default should be leave powered off unless that option is ticked
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SLA policy without schedule in SPP GUI

SPP GUI doesn't have any option to have a SLA policy without any schedule.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Delete a single VM or data backup in SPP

30 Aug 2018 11:57 AM Mike, I would recommend opening an RFE and requesting this functionality. Robert[Less]30 Aug 2018 11:57 AMrobertsd (IBM) changed Status from Waiting for IBM to Awaiting your feedback.30 Aug 2018 11:49 AMMike Swartz (Customer) ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP PLUS: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function for SPP PLUS software to read raw Exchange .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP ram requirements

Spectrum Protect Plus has 2 main components; SPP appliance (management) and vSnap.They both has high amount of RAM requirement.We are having issues when explaining this requirement to our customers as MSP. Because as the amount of data grows, the ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Oracle log truncate on Spectrum Protect Plus

Need for SPP to delete Oracle/dBase log with a user defined frequency.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Single VM Backup History

A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP - restart a job for one VM in Sla

we need to restart a backup job for one VM (if errors during last sla jobs)
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Schedule Force Base Resources (full backup)

Possibilities to Schedule full backups in a SLA. Like, over a month VM makes a full backup randomly every night spread over the time you set.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

backup individiual vm within current sla

We would like to see the ability to restart/retry failed vm's within an SLA without running the complete SLA.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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