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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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.
over 4 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.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Pick a backup to offload in a cloud object storage or SP as archive

Hello support, I would like to know if it is possible to pick a backup that i want to offload in a cloud object storage or SP.We can define a SLA to to it as a politic. But the goal is to do it in onetime. example:do an incremental backup every da...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Dump of login information (auditlog) from the Spectrum Protect Plus application to monitor it in Rsyslog

Hi, we have enabled the Rsyslog, to monitor the accesses (login) to the Spectrum protect Plus, for the Linux server we already have it working, but for the login in the application there is no option, since this information is only in the GUI, and...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Grid View of backup success rate

The current VM backup success report takes minutes to run for a 1 day report and much longer (I gave up waiting) for a 7 day report. If the Protected and Unprotected VMs report is anything to go by it could take over 2 hours to produce this report...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

FLR from VM target replicated via Vsnap

In case that SLAs which replicate the backups. Then, if SPP restores a file or directory, this file or directory is always restored from the Vsnap source in case of the Vsnap replication. It should have the option to restore the file from Vsnap so...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Identify each Restore Process choosing a name

In the jobmonitoring panel all restore process are showed with the same name " onDemandRestore". We should have the possibility to choose a name by restore process.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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