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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

    Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus Direct Offload to Spectrum Protect

    Enable the direct offload to Spectrum Protect without the requirement to have a copy of the data offloaded in the vSnap.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Official support for the Workaround of disabled EFS (Encrypted File System) for Exchange DAG restore operations is needed

    In our environment, activating the EFS is not allowed. If EFS is not enabled, the restore of Exchange DAG databases does not work. IBM has provided us with a workaround where a JSON file (SPAgent_cfg.json) is placed in the directory "C:\Program Fi...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus supporting SAP HANA

    Spectrum Protect Plus supporting backup and recovery of SAP HANA.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    SPP: Enable filesystem & DB Backup at the same time

    When looking in the System requirements for SPP, the following restriction is mentioned: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6421231 Only one application server or file server can be assigned per host. For example, if a host is registered as a ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Manually select a specific snapshot and offload for long-term retention

    Manually select a specific backup/snapshot and offload it for long-term retention.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Customization of LDAP authentication in Spectrum Protect software

    When using Spectrum Protect Plus with LDAP authentication, the group parameter that is queried is hard coded (objectClass=group).This objectClass "group" is not present on all LDAP servers.Please allow customization of group attribute (like object...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

    During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Provide a replication status in the dashboard to verify vSnap replication is in sync/running etc.

    A status view is required to identify if vSnap replication is in sync / running / out-of-sync similar to the replication status view in the Operation Center for Spectrum Protect replication.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Oracle dataguard support

    We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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