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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    Utilize NetApp Snapshots for Spectrum Protect Plus backups

    Please investigate allowing Spectrum Protect Plus to perform an array-based Snapshot on NetApp systems for VMware vSphere backups. The software could trigger vSphere snapshots on the VMs in a datastore to remove the write lock from the VMDK and ca...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Disable alerts when SLA has no VM

    We would like an option to disable alerts when SLA has no VM
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    High availability support for vsnap

    VSNAP and VADP proxy high availability (clustering ) support. We need to extend the clustering support already available for SPP server to VADP Proxies and Vsnap servers, in combination with HW storage sharing
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Lock retention on SLAs to keep data from being expired/deleted

    Option to define a SLA that will lock the snapshots from deletion until further notice.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Business unit field per VM

    For reporting purpose it would be useful to have an option to add information per VM.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    IBM SPP vSnap availability in AWS EU (Stockholm) Region

    IBM SPP vSnap is now available in AWS marketplace for deployment but it doesn't list AWS EU (Stockholm) Region yet.It is important to have vSnap in this region for adaption to SPP and not choosing other solution.Due to workload in AWS EU (Stockhol...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

    Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    CDM support for VVols

    Customer is looking for CDM to support full VVols functionality. VVols is running in production in this customer site.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP - Datastore Utilisation Check

    Please can SPP have a setting to check the utilisation % of a datastore prior to backing up to ensure that the snapshot being taken does not risk the datastore running out of space.This can then be checked by SPP prior to each VM being backed up, ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    SpectrumProtectPlus Feature add

    Government Audit requirement, customer is requesting. Is there a way on the back end to rename an SLA without impact existing backup data in SPP? 2. Can an editable “description” field be added to the SLA object in the SPP dashboard so we can indi...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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