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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP during Resouce Registration have option to sign to resource group

During customer Meeting, it was asked if during registration of resource they could have the ability to assign resource to a resource group
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication status

Currently Spectrum Protect only show in the reports the status of a VM in compliance with replication policy but a person can not tell the % outstanding to replicate and or the % completed this makes reporting on the environment status much harder...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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...
about 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
about 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
about 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.
about 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.
about 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...
about 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.
about 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.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration