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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup of Shared VHDX and Shared VHDX in a set

would like the ability of backing up Hyper-V VM's using SPP when they are configured with Shared VHDX and/or Shared VHDX in a Set.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Direct SPP Primary Backups to Cloud Storage.

Direct Primary backups to Cloud Storage. without the need to send it first to vSnap and then create an additional copy to Cloud Storage
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Make GUI less mouse-scrolling-mayham

When working in GUI (I long for a CLi) it is divided into different parts using scrollable text-boxes. No part of GUI seem to be resizable, which makes working in GUI hard. When choosing a SLA I need to scroll the SLA-policy-text-box and if I scro...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve VM Restore GUI

Remove the necessity of choosing "Type of Restore." Make one of the options (on-demand) the default. Add a button to show all available restore points without having to poke around in the calendar.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Replication job 'Fails' when there is no data

We have a use case where we would like to leave replication enabled for a backup SLA that runs manually. As the job is run infrequently users will not remember to run replication when they run the job. However, SPP reports the replication job as '...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Grid View of backup success rate

The current VM backup success report takes minutes to run for a 1 day report and much longer (I gave up waiting) for a 7 day report. If the Protected and Unprotected VMs report is anything to go by it could take over 2 hours to produce this report...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Plus to restore database to different instance using existing database name

I backup a database EXAMPLE on one server(prodserver) under instance Prodinst1. I have a test server(testserver) with instance Testinst1. As part of testing, our developers use testserver/TestInst1 database EXAMPLE. SPP backs up the database on pr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

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