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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    Oracle dataguard support

    We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Oracle Agentless Cold Backups

    IBM Spectrum Protect PlusOracle Agentless COLD Backups Current versions of IBM SPP only support Hot backups. Our customer has all they Development environment with Oracle in non Archive log mode. Causing SPP not a viable option to implement backups.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Be able to set default throttle or multiple throttle schedules (business hours or weekends, for example)

    This request is to have the ability of creating different throttle schedules, or setting a default throttle.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    installation image for physical vSnap servers

    IBM provides vsnap server OVAs für virtualized vsnap servers.In some customer situations it would be helpful to have also a fully supported installation image for physical vsnap servers including update images.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

    Update vSnaps over SPP GUI / Dashboard

    We would like to be able to update one or more vSnaps through the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI / Dashboard.Currently we have to update the vSnaps manually via the cli on the vSnap server itself.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    AWS EC2 Snapshot replication and copy

    Allow an AWS EC2 snapshot to be ingested by SPP's repository and the ability of creating other copies, using replication and copy/offload features.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support nested groups from Active Directory

    Currently SPP does not supported nested Active Directory groups.Only direct group members are able to login. With a "nested" group member - so a member of a group under the added group doesn't work.Here's what I mean: Group 1 (added to SPP) <- ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    vsnap storage migration from EOS/EOL Backend storage to new storage on same vsnap

    We have no approved solution to migrate the attached LUNs on a vsnap server to new LUNs on same vsnap server. We need that if backend storage is going EOL/EOS. Currently there is only one solution and this is to create new vsnap server with new LU...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    SPP: Progress bar for Replication & Archive

    Currently ISPP only shows a working progress bar for Backups. For Jobs like Replication and Cloud Offload the bar stays at 0% until the end and then jumps to 100%.This is a problem when monitoring tasks and trying to get a rough estimate how long ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Change SPP requirements for WinRM for AllowUnencrypt due to security issues

    Currently ISPP requirements for Windows (SQL/Exchange/Windows File Indexing) say to set AllowUnencrypted to true :winrm s winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}and"Both servers must have a Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service that is...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Planned for future release

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