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VADP Proxy load statistics dashboard

Add dashboard that shows load per per proxy (and # of tasks executed) per exectured SLA. Provide more system performance info; Are all proxy's used?, are proxys rightly scaled? are all jobs active etc.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Schedule policy/job to execute every 4th saturday of the month

Policy can be set to start on the day of the month (1st, 2nd,...) and can be set to start at Saturday but repeat it every 4 weeks, because some months have 5 weeks it's not acceptable. We need it to be set(because of load) every 4th saturday of th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Filter for Backup, Replication and Copy in GUI

Under Job History in the SPP GUI it would be helpful to be able to filter by job job type. Example: Backup, Replication or Copy. This would make it much easier to search for specific jobs.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup of Shared VHDX and Shared VHDX in a set

would like the ability of backing up Hyper-V VM's using SPP when they are configured with Shared VHDX and/or Shared VHDX in a Set.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Sort lists / Provide user ability to sort

Lists in the user interface are not sorted: vSnap servers, VADP servers, SLAs when assigning an SLA to a VM, etc. All lists should be sorted by default and should also provide the user the ability to click any column to sort by that column.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Replication job 'Fails' when there is no data

We have a use case where we would like to leave replication enabled for a backup SLA that runs manually. As the job is run infrequently users will not remember to run replication when they run the job. However, SPP reports the replication job as '...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

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