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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Summary Report

Need a dashboard style report showing key performance figures for management. Current reports are PDFs containing long lists of information. There is no equivalent of the ‘General Operations' report that is produced by Operations Center for Spectr...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Summary of all SLA Timings

A Gannt view of SLA timings would illustrate resource utilisation, where it may be useful to change schedule times to avoid contention and where extra resources may be neededCould also compare the previous night with the average from the past week...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Identify individual VM backup sessions during a SLA backup

Once a SLA is running, it would be nice to see in a list which VM's completed the backup successfully, which failed, which are running and which will run, to help monitor and take appropriate actions if needed.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Hard to find target host/cluster for VM restore when many hosts/clusters available

The restore of a VM to an alternate host becomes very problematic when many hosts are available. The customer I am working with has an environment that creates a list page count of over 800 in the restore UI of SPP. It won't be possible to find th...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

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