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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Single VM Backup History

A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under 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

SPP - Option for Non-memory Snapshot

By default SPP always takes a memory snapshot.Although SPP has the option to disable VSS (Quiesced Snapshot), it doesn not have the option to disable a memory snapshot.We NEED the option to disable memory snapshot for some VMs which cannot be snap...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux

SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support Oracle 10g

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support Oracle 10g over RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v5.9

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version and oython 2.4.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 10g.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Ability to restore a mailbox to a PST without connecting to an Exchange Server

Customers require to restore mailbox without needing to connect to an Exchange Server
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration