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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Edit SLA Policy name

Enable the customer to edit the name of an SLA Policy.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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 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.
over 4 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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

S3 Interface to SPP

The IT industry gets faster and faster and new tools get quicker implemented and all of them normally have a Restful API you can use to communicate with the new applications I have fully understanding that IBM can't support all new applications an...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future 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...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

SPP Server: view / check / download certificates

Hallo all As you know, there is no option to check / view certificate, e.g., for vSnap directly from SPP server. Check certificate might be required when non-default certs are in place. Under system configuration -> keys and certificates, there...
over 1 year 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)
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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

Ability to interface SPP with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration