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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Ability to Clone/Copy SLA Policy

Add the ability to clone SLAs i.e. keep the retention/schedule/replication/offload settings and just give the option to set a new name
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Oracle DB support on Windows for Spectrum Protect Plus

Spectrum Protect Plus ( actual version 10.1.0.3) is supporting backup of Oracle databases on Linux and AIX environments but not on Windows. It is not even on the road map. There is a big need to have this database vendor supported on Windows as it...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP: Allow VADP/VSNAP deployment with SSH keys instead of username/password

Hello, VADP and VSNAP Deployment require that you enter a OS username and password for ssh communication. Username and password authentication is not very secure therefore any sane/larger customer will only allow ssh-keys for authentication. Pleas...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enhance zero touch agent injection by automatically making the changes to support SPP agent to the server

Customer has requested making the zero touch agent injection process simpler. For this specific case, the pre-requisites to inject an agent on a Linux server is a lengthy process. They would like to see if this can be done automatically when deplo...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Migration plans for cloud offload data in SPP

Customers looking to make use of cloud offload generally have archival of snapshots in mind. This particular customer is currently using CloudA today may want move to CloudB sometime in the future. Currently when a cloud destination is changed in ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Backup Direct to Tape

Need the ability for clients to leverage existing infrastructure such as tape libraries they have bought and allow Spectrum Protect Plus to offload directly to tape.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Document required "sudo" permissions

The requirement for a single file recovery within Spectrum Protect Plus is to implement a sudo-configuration on each protected VM to assign:sppagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release