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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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improve flexibility of Spectrum Protect Plus SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms

present SPP design limitation don't well support SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms simultaneously. the association operations on folders and vm under same folder may cause VM failed to be associated with expected SLA as expected. custom...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Is a defect

Suppport FreeNAS S3 as S3 compatible Object Storage

FreeNAS/TrueNAS is a commonly used small to medium software appliance for storage. It provides S3 API via Minio and is compatible with S3.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect API for DB2 does not allow to set 'set protect size' info. Hence OC does not count it for License check

Nodes being used for DB2 database backup using TSM client API are not reporting to front end capacity usage (in Operation Center). Hence unable to utilize OC for license calculation. Refer PMR Numbers TS001718996 and TS002594393.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SQL Service User per SQL instance

We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Replication job shows as error

SPP shows a replication job as a failure, but only because there was nothing to replicate not because of an actual error. Perhaps the error message type could be changed here so the job doesn't fail.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: way to browse files for restore

Give a way to pull up an index of files that were backed up for a specific VM on a specific day. Basically copy pulling up a point in time restore browser that is in the normal SP client.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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
over 5 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.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration