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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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allow SPP to intelligent selection for VADP transport mode

testing has shown that if using a virtual VADP proxy, the HotAdd transport is good for large amounts of data transfer, but NBD is better for smaller data transfers since there is a small amount of time spent establishing HotAdd. It would be good t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Option to always retain the last version

We need an option for the retention perion in IBM Spectrum Control Plus, so that we always have an backup.option: always retain the last version
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Ability to name backup

Customer needs the ability to specify the name of backup jobs.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

AWS PrivateLink Endpoint support for S3

It is desired to use an AWS PrivateLink endpoint to access AWS S3 as an object storage provider to Spectrum Protect Plus, with AWS S3 region support. To do this, it must be possible to register AWS S3 to Spectrum Protect Plus by specifying an arbi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Disk and Replication Reporting in Dashboard and Reports

Disk Reporting Want to see capacity used, capacity free, capacity growth % in the last 24 hours, 48 hours, 1 week, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 1 year, 3 years e.t.cInfo should be available on the Dashboard, in ackup Storage and in reports Nothing o...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for HNAS CSI Driver

Hitachi HNAS CSI Driver support is needed to backup Openshift persistent volumes with IBM's Spectrum Protect Plus. HNAS CSI Driver Documentation URL link: https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Storage/NAS_Platform/Best_practices/Hitachi_N...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore

SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restoreSPP is not currently aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore. VM(s) will be restored with the default vSAN storage policy, not the one specified in the source VM(s). It w...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spetcrum Protect or SPP cross-hypervisor restore for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure)

Cross-hypervisor restore feature for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure) is a feature already supported in competitor solutions ie Commvault .
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide SPP GUI Server for more platforms than VMWare and Hyper-V

The central Spectrum Protect Plus management server can be deployed as a virtual machine on VMWare or Hyper-V. But there are customers that want to protect workloads like Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, DB2, Mongo DB etc. with Spectrum Protect Plus, wh...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance

We need options to On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance.Currently we need to select one by one database to on-demand backup.Best way is to have the 2 options, select one database or all of an instance.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration