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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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 .
about 4 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

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...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
almost 2 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

Backup of Microsoft Teams Chat transcripts in Protect Plus Office365

Working with a customer who is moving to Office 365 and needs a product to provide backups. As a Spectrum Protect customer today they looked at Protect Plus for Office 365, but the IBM solution lacks the capability to backup the Microsoft Teams "C...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP original storage policy during restore instead of default policy

If a customer uses multiple storage policies and a restore is preformed, SPP assigns the default storage policy by default. The customer has to select the original storage policy manually, which can be easily forgotten during a restore.It would be...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP| exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup

In SPP for VM snapshot base backup, exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup. End user want to exclude there application/DB folder (one/more than one folder or particular extension for file like .mdf,.ldf)
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

IBM SPP to show daily replication throughput

Customer needs to know the daily replication throughput and status for SPP vsnap replication.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration