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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo SSl / TLS

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo client agent does not have support for SSL or TLS security keys. Please add SSL /TLS security function to the Mongo agent.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enhance zero touch agent injection by automatically making the changes to support SPP agent to the server

Customer has requested making the zero touch agent injection process simpler. For this specific case, the pre-requisites to inject an agent on a Linux server is a lengthy process. They would like to see if this can be done automatically when deplo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backing up and Restoring VMs that have independant disks allocated to them

Short notes:TSM for VE will backup and restore and VM with zero dependent disks. The data will not be on the disks, but the VM will backup and restore with the disks in place. SPP simply fails the job if there are no dependent disks. TSM for VE wi...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Edit SLA Policy name

Enable the customer to edit the name of an SLA Policy.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP native restore to VSI on IBM Cloud

Many OnPrem VMWare environments require both backup to IBM Cloud using Spectrum Protect Plus and a non-urgent form of DR plan using IBM Cloud components. Currently this is only possible using Bare Metal options. SPP should be natively able to rest...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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 ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission because in the current version we have to implement multiple settings.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP monthly storage & billling report

Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to restore drives over original location

Customer would like to have the option to restore a drive directly over the original drive. Currently the only option is to restore the drive and have it mounted along side the original drive.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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