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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    Allow prioritisation of policies

    Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

    Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Improving offload hardware requirement efficiency

    Hi, Currently, when an SPP customer would like to have a copy on tapes, he has 2 alternatives:1. copy mode - to have additional storage space in the ISP server (as directory container) to allow incremental copies. that requires twice the capacity ...
    about 6 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)
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Define a launch window by SLA

    The need is to be able to set an SLA time from which everything left in the queue in the SLA is canceled.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP - Support Incremental Backup of Exchange DBs on ReFS

    Customer has recently replaced Commvault with IBM SPP. Only Full Exchange backups are working as the customer is using ReFS.Also, since SPP is using VSS of the Exchange Server, backup of the 2nd Exchange DB cannot be started unless the backup of f...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus - Remove from SLA button

    When modifying subject being backed up by a specific SLA, it would be more user friendly if you added a "Remove SLA" / "Unassign from SLA" button. Now i need to "Select a SLA Policy" to actually unselect a subject from a SLA.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster

    Need the ability to isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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

    SPP - Sort lists / Provide user ability to sort

    Lists in the user interface are not sorted: vSnap servers, VADP servers, SLAs when assigning an SLA to a VM, etc. All lists should be sorted by default and should also provide the user the ability to click any column to sort by that column.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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