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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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additional info collumns to job monitoring

Please add additional colums for Total transfer size and Throughput in overview of jobs. (Monitoring)
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Provide Splunk Integration for Spectrum Protect Plus

Allow SPP audit logs and VSNAP logs to be forwarded to Splunk or another platform for easier monitoring.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Modify 'Protected and Unprotected VMs' report to allow display of only unprotected VM

The current report shows both protected and unprotected VMs in report and allow to hide Unprotected VM. However there is no report which can display only unprotected VM. Business Justification: We have thousands of VMs part of protection and their...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore Functionality - Enable the recovery of VMs as an orchestrated group

Enable the recovery of VMs as a group i.e. Consistency Group or restore group for orchestration What is meant here is the ability to recover VMs in a ordered or orchestrated fashion i.e. I have 3 servers to recover an AD server, a SQL server and a...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus VADP proxy transport modes reset during code updates

During code updates, VADP proxy transport modes get reset to default - SAN, Hot-Add, NBDSSL and NBD
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under 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

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

Ability to interface SPP with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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