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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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

SPP Migrate Offloaded Data between different Cloud Providers

Spectrum Protect Plus should provide a functionality to migrate offloaded backups between cloud providers.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Ability to restore a mailbox to a PST without connecting to an Exchange Server

Customers require to restore mailbox without needing to connect to an Exchange Server
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP SQL restore should have an option to restore to a different directory

There is no option to restore a SQL backup to a different directory. IBM support tested it and only option is to choose a different db name which will be unique and not affect the Sql instance already there.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Option to always retain the last version

We need an option for the retention perion in IBM Spectrum Control Plus, so that we always have an backup.option: always retain the last version
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP should disable vSphere storage vMotion during backup

If vSphere storage vMotion is performed during SPP VM backup there may be left orphaned VMDK files on datastores. This causes operational problems for customers
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore

SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restoreSPP is not currently aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore. VM(s) will be restored with the default vSAN storage policy, not the one specified in the source VM(s). It w...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Historical data on vSnap utilization

Customer requests the ability to have historical report of vSnap storage utilization over time (i.e. past 90, 365 days or greater). The report should show changing vSnap utilization and compression / deduplication ratios broken down into a chart o...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration