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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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

Exclude VMs from Sources Protected number.

If I tag a VM with something like ‘no_backup' or just don't include it in an SLA it is still counted in the total number of VMs protected. There are some VMs (desktops, Citrix, Web, etc) where you may have a single configuration server and then ma...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

additional info collumns to job monitoring

Please add additional colums for Total transfer size and Throughput in overview of jobs. (Monitoring)
almost 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

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

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

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...
about 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
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

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

Access to all functions in SPP through WAN using SSL

It is possible to connect to some of the functions in the SPP server GUI, but not all of them. E.g: accessing the Policy Overview page. The GUI tries to access the public IP address / host name from inside the firewall, and this causes the problem.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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