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Inherited VM options on a per backup policy level

Backup policies defined on a per tag basis are allowed to inherit the parent options associated with the tag (i.e. defining proxy server, snapshot retries, application/filesystem consistency, etc.). As these options get defined for a single tag, t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Report Enhancement giving more detailed into

I believe a report is neaded the gives more details. This is the info that I would like to see in a single report:1. The full path to the VM that is displayed under the "Search for..." box in SPP panels such as: Manage Protection - Virtual Systems...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable setup of cataloging of file metadata at an SLA level as well as a VM level

Enable the catalog metdata option at an SLA level as well as VM level. This is so its easier to enable in larger environments when a customer wants to enable across the entire estate. Also be good if we provided a standard GPO to enable the rollou...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Show dedup and compression ratio per VM

We can see total deduplication and compression ratio from SPP UI.This information is about all the backups taken and not detailed.Also we can see backup data per VM from "VM Backup Utilization" report.We should be able to see deduplication and com...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Monthly daily SPP backup report

For a given month (or period) provide daily SPP backup status (success, failed, undone). Provides single view to compute the backup SLA commonly used in outsourcing engagement.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP 3.rd recovery

Customer wants a third site for recovery. They are planning for a 3rd site recovery site to start up the workload from backup. Today we can recover SPP catalog from vsnaps. And the vsnaps can store data as archive to OSSM/S3/SP (this will act as s...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated in the SPP Gui to cater for infrastructure changes where the SP server IP address has changedand to allow the possiblity to allow the SPP server to be repointed to the failover object agen...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP vSnap availability in AWS EU (Stockholm) Region

IBM SPP vSnap is now available in AWS marketplace for deployment but it doesn't list AWS EU (Stockholm) Region yet.It is important to have vSnap in this region for adaption to SPP and not choosing other solution.Due to workload in AWS EU (Stockhol...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve SPP handling of ICOS retention Vaults

IBM SPP handling of IBM COS Retention Vaults does not guarantee protection of all objects referred in full backups. Offloading or copying to IBM COS retention vaults is done to offer "Cyber Resiliency" for a certain amount of defined time, for exa...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration