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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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

SPP for Microsoft 365 : backup shared mailboxes

In the Microsoft Exchange Online (365) product, you have mailboxes linked to existing people (people with mail license) that you can backup.But, you also have "shared mailboxes" (Microsoft's term) that do not need mail license. However, I'd like t...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Oracle log truncate on Spectrum Protect Plus

Need for SPP to delete Oracle/dBase log with a user defined frequency.
over 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...
over 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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Linux File Indexing without Root

We have not been able to expand use of SPP in our environment because Operating System Admins are unwilling to grant us accounts with root-level privileges. Can we get a list of the commands that SPP uses that require root-level permissions? The t...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP to show daily replication throughput

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

Improvement to the upgrading process of MGMT server

The upgrade process is apparently not perfect. I was "kicked" out from the upgrade progress page, before process completed and that can cause confusion? The reason i was kicked out, was that the update components/package was updated ? A suggestion...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under 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

provide SPP micro-agent installation packages

Customer organization has separation of responsibilities such that pushing micro-agents (specifically file-level indexing micro-agent) is onerous and time consuming. In similar cases in their organization, an agent installation package (including ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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