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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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RFE: Chargeback reporting in SPP

Request from State of Arkansas for chargeback reporting based on the amount of data backed up in SPP per VM. (Not the amount of data stored on the vSnap server, after dedup compression - only amount of data backed up during backup job.)
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

SPP File Restore GUI/Wizard

The steps for the VM FileRestore are not clear and simple enough according to the client.In a restore situation (always associated with stress), the customer has to know or consider too many things in order to perform the file restore. For example...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

support of AzureStack in Spectrum Protect Plus

we want to move our backups to cloud as 'second backup'. Our cloud provider offers AzureStack /pleAzureStack/, but in menu of Spectrum Protect plus is only Azure. Could you add support of AzureStack in some of near updates?
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

DB backup not running on all nodes in oracle

we have customers with oracle DBs that have some DBs registered in all nodes but that are not running in all nodes, and the SPP cannot backup these DBs, it is necessary to make the SPP capable of doing so
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Needs more information

HW Snapshot support in SPP for HPe 3PAR

Customer (a large SP and competition (mainly for VMware) user) is running an RFI concerning backup/recovery. Part of this RFI is protection of VMware. Customer is using HP 3PAR hardware for their VMware vSphere enviroment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

starting SLA dialog not enough information

When you manually start an SLA, a "Start Options" dialog box pops up and you have to click "OK" to start the SLA, it would be nice if you can see which SLA (the name of the SLA) you are starting... All you see is the words "SLA Policy" and a combo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Ability to import OVL into ESX host without vCenter

In previous versions with the CentOS based OVL it was possible to import the SPP OVL into an ESX host running without vCenter. For the latest 10.1.11, RedHat based OVL this function is not working.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need function in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of SQL Server database

Customer requires functionality in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of a SQL Server database. This is related to GDPR.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

Have Spectrum CDM check UUID of the device before removal, thus avoiding the likelyhood of the wrond device being removed

When CDM creates its cleanup data for removing a copy it records the device name it used when the disks were added, for example, /dev/sdn. These device names are not persistent and as CDM does a "echo 1 > /bin/sys/block/sdn/device/delete" to re...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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