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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP - restart a job for one VM in Sla

we need to restart a backup job for one VM (if errors during last sla jobs)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Possibility for monthly and annual Archiving to TSM Tape

When configuring additional copies with offload on TSM, you can only use container pools for storage, but container pools cannot be migrated to tape. Since we only use all-flash SAN storage, this is a very costly solution. For our customer, we nee...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Schedule Force Base Resources (full backup)

Possibilities to Schedule full backups in a SLA. Like, over a month VM makes a full backup randomly every night spread over the time you set.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

backup individiual vm within current sla

We would like to see the ability to restart/retry failed vm's within an SLA without running the complete SLA.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

CDM appliance self-monitoring

The functionality of the CDM processes themselves should be monitored on the appliance and the possibility to receive alerts when the main CDM program has problems.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

vRealize Automation (vRA) / vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin with SPP

Ability to interface SPP with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Ability to restore a mailbox to a PST without connecting to an Exchange Server

Customers require to restore mailbox without needing to connect to an Exchange Server
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

RFE: Chargeback reporting in SPP

Request from State of Arkansas for chargeback reporting based on the amount of data backed up in SPP per VM. (Not the amount of data stored on the vSnap server, after dedup compression - only amount of data backed up during backup job.)
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for HPe 3PAR

Customer (a large SP and competition (mainly for VMware) user) is running an RFI concerning backup/recovery. Part of this RFI is protection of VMware. Customer is using HP 3PAR hardware for their VMware vSphere enviroment.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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