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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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, ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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
over 5 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
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Provide License Report Granularity on Users/Roles/Resource Groups

In order to represent and determine a cost model for the usage of SPP, please enhance the licensing report (System > License) to be able to select additional options/filters. Filters should be bound to resource groups, users or roles. Target is...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing
over 5 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
over 5 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...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus hardware snapshot support

Spectrum Protect Plus currently do not support hardware snapshots as the current Spectrum Protect Snapshot a.k.a. FCM software does - and current Spectrum CDM has no option to recover (flash-revert) the production copy from a snapshot.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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