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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    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 7 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.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    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 3 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.)
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 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
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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.
    almost 8 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)
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Storage Protect Plus Future Version can be able to Backup and Restore VM on cross Hypervisor platform as like Hyper-V to VMware to Hyper-V.

    It can be useful a VM can be restore without require any connectors or convertors to change the VM disks from one hypervisor to another hypervisor and to reduce more admin tasks. In our environment we have IBM SP and SPP to compete with other Back...
    over 2 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.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    VM move from one VC to another schould be recognized by SPP

    In large and grown VMware environments it can happen that VMs have to be moved from one virtual center to the next in the same cluster. With Virtual Centers that have existed for many years, VMware Support may recommend installing a new VC and mov...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

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