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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Allow SP Plus backups to Spectrum Protect server w/o requiring a backup to the vSnap storage first

A backup to Spectrum Protect is not possible w/o doing first a backup to a vSnap. The dependency on vSnap should be removed to allow leveraging the Spectrum Protect server storage hierarchy.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

avoid external ssh access to spp container pods for ISP Plus kubernetes backup

In release 10.1.6 of ISP Plus ssh access to the spp agent container pods is needed from outside the k8s cluster (ISPP Server needs this access).There are security concerns at a customer site due to this requirement.SPP server to spp agent pod comm...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

SPP excluding disks Function for HyperV (same function as available for VMware)

The function "Excluding single virtual disks from SLA policy for a VMware job" (description see Redbook REDP-5532-01, page 175) is current only available for VMWare but missing in HyperV.Inventx needs this function in HyperV.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP agent for file backups

Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Restart failed backup

SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SCDM - Re-use SSH sessions for IBM SVC Storage

Spectrum Copy Data Management creates new SSH sessions when running SVC CLI commands. Each CLI commands requires opening an SSH session and once the CLI command completes, closing the SSH session. Instead of opening a new SSH session for every CLI...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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