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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Spectrum Protect Plus native application-aware snapshot/recovery support of Google Cloud Platform VMs

Support for SPP to snapshot/recover Google Cloud VMs via API (like VMware VM support). Need capability of installing both the SPP server and vSnap in GCP.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Detailed License Report - Spectrum Protect Plus

The license report in SPP is not self-explanatory.Its very easy to get confused on the returned results. It would be a great help, if it was possible to expand the sources, so it was possible to see what VM's and what application instances the res...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Predicting/built-in intelligence

Today there are many repeatable task and manual human interaction to administer Spectrum Protect/Spectrum Protect Plus software. Examples: adjusting space reclamation, validate database backups, copy storage pool, protect storage pool processes, r...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Replication, Resume Backup on Target vSnap

When vSnap replication for backups/SLA is enabled, incremental backup is only possible to the one, primary vSnap. If vSnap on primary site fails/unavailable, currently a new FULL backup on the secondary/replication site must be done, even if it ho...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSnap Failover Functionality

Currently, vSnap servers do not have integrated failover functionality. This means if a vSnap is not available, and a backup runs pointing to this vSnap, backup will fail. Automatic failover should happen if a vSnap is not available. Backup then s...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP 10.1.3 Exchange DAG Production Restore: User must put in name of .EDB file

If you select "Production Restore" you can restore to the original location on the original instance or a alternate location on the original instance. If you are restoring to the original location on the original instance, you do not need to enter...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Exchange Mailbox recovery tool takes a long time open a small mailbox

In our SPP training lab we have 5 DAG's separated on 10 Servers. The DAG consists of 2 dedicated Exchange Servers Each.When trying to open a Mail Box using the tool after the SPP granular recovery completes. It can take between 15 to 20 minutes to...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP GUI Language Option

Starting from SPP Version 10.1.4 the GUI detects the browser language to automatically choose the language for the Web GUI (for example to german). We need a way to configure the language for the Web GUI for the logged in user. This is because som...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration