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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Add ability to restore drives over original location

Customer would like to have the option to restore a drive directly over the original drive. Currently the only option is to restore the drive and have it mounted along side the original drive.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Exclude VMs from Sources Protected number.

If I tag a VM with something like ‘no_backup' or just don't include it in an SLA it is still counted in the total number of VMs protected. There are some VMs (desktops, Citrix, Web, etc) where you may have a single configuration server and then ma...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission because in the current version we have to implement multiple settings.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore Functionality - Enable the recovery of VMs as an orchestrated group

Enable the recovery of VMs as a group i.e. Consistency Group or restore group for orchestration What is meant here is the ability to recover VMs in a ordered or orchestrated fashion i.e. I have 3 servers to recover an AD server, a SQL server and a...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow SLA jobs to be run only by external tools rather than the SPP scheduler

We have had a number of customers wanting to running SPP SLA jobs via other tools. Currently you are able to run an existing SLA job by the RestAPI but only if it is already scheduled to run via the SPP scheduler. If you hold the SLA job you are u...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Access to all functions in SPP through WAN using SSL

It is possible to connect to some of the functions in the SPP server GUI, but not all of them. E.g: accessing the Policy Overview page. The GUI tries to access the public IP address / host name from inside the firewall, and this causes the problem.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Display VM name to restore JOB Name

Hi, We find it extremely hard to follow & find my restore vm's since our environment have many restore due to massive data reuse and the restore jobs are not displaying the restored vm names and there is only numbers such as: OnDemandrestore_1...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Detailed progress screen for cloud offload and replication operations.

On the Spectrum Protect Plus backup screen, we can see detailed information about the backed up machines and the process in the progress section.But we cannot see detailed information during replication and cloud offload operations.Replication and...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SpectrumProtectPlus Feature add

Government Audit requirement, customer is requesting. Is there a way on the back end to rename an SLA without impact existing backup data in SPP? 2. Can an editable “description” field be added to the SLA object in the SPP dashboard so we can indi...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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