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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Spectrum Protect Plus Report Enhancement giving more detailed into

I believe a report is neaded the gives more details. This is the info that I would like to see in a single report:1. The full path to the VM that is displayed under the "Search for..." box in SPP panels such as: Manage Protection - Virtual Systems...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

excel report output without nice formatting would be better

The reporting feature of Spectrum protect plus has two output formats. PDF and Excel.To work with the data in bulk, excel is the preferred output, but it has too much formatting applied. I need one line outputs. Not the server name on one line and...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Show dedup and compression ratio per VM

We can see total deduplication and compression ratio from SPP UI.This information is about all the backups taken and not detailed.Also we can see backup data per VM from "VM Backup Utilization" report.We should be able to see deduplication and com...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Show catalog restore process

When restoring Spectrum Protect Plus catalog, first it takes us to log-in screen.But we can't log-in because "server is being brought" screen come out we need to wait until it's completed.There is no log or information on the screen. We're waiting...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

View VM DataStore Size when restoring VM

I would like the ability to see the size of the DataStore I am restoring to from within the Spectrum Protect Plus VM restore GUI. Right now if I want to restore to a datastore I have to open VMWARE to make sure there is enough space available on t...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Monthly daily SPP backup report

For a given month (or period) provide daily SPP backup status (success, failed, undone). Provides single view to compute the backup SLA commonly used in outsourcing engagement.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Need the ability to manually select a vSnap to be used during a backup even if that vSnap is in a site with multiple vSnaps

A customer has asked for the ability to override the automated selection process for where a VM backup is put. This would be for situations where they have multiple vSnaps assigned to a site in SPP but have a desire to make use of a vSnap that has...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect FreeBSD client

I would like to request support for Spectrum Protect Client that runs natively on FreeBSD.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Hadoop support by SPP

Ability to backup and restore Hadoop data with Spectrum Protect Plus
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Report Restore VM in SPP

Auditor person want to report restore same as menu function report vm backup history but in ibm spectrum protect plus not have
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

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