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The virgo log needs to be consistent with SPP server timezone.

The virgo log is written in UTC timezone, which is hard-code. SPP time zone is set as per SPP server location. When we analyze virgo log for any problem, it is difficult to corelate with time as SPP time zone is different. So instead of hardcoding...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Provide Splunk Integration for Spectrum Protect Plus

Allow SPP audit logs and VSNAP logs to be forwarded to Splunk or another platform for easier monitoring.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Modify 'Protected and Unprotected VMs' report to allow display of only unprotected VM

The current report shows both protected and unprotected VMs in report and allow to hide Unprotected VM. However there is no report which can display only unprotected VM. Business Justification: We have thousands of VMs part of protection and their...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP Server: view / check / download certificates

Hallo all As you know, there is no option to check / view certificate, e.g., for vSnap directly from SPP server. Check certificate might be required when non-default certs are in place. Under system configuration -> keys and certificates, there...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup history for specified date frame

Hallo all To get information about VM or application backup history, you should use /ngp/analytics/vmbackuphistory or /ngp/analytics/dbbackuphistory rest-api endpoints. It generally works... if you have small amount of VM's and your environment is...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP 3.rd recovery

Customer wants a third site for recovery. They are planning for a 3rd site recovery site to start up the workload from backup. Today we can recover SPP catalog from vsnaps. And the vsnaps can store data as archive to OSSM/S3/SP (this will act as s...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to import OVL into ESX host without vCenter

In previous versions with the CentOS based OVL it was possible to import the SPP OVL into an ESX host running without vCenter. For the latest 10.1.11, RedHat based OVL this function is not working.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Schedule policy/job to execute every 4th saturday of the month

Policy can be set to start on the day of the month (1st, 2nd,...) and can be set to start at Saturday but repeat it every 4 weeks, because some months have 5 weeks it's not acceptable. We need it to be set(because of load) every 4th saturday of th...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Direct SPP Primary Backups to Cloud Storage.

Direct Primary backups to Cloud Storage. without the need to send it first to vSnap and then create an additional copy to Cloud Storage
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Plus to restore database to different instance using existing database name

I backup a database EXAMPLE on one server(prodserver) under instance Prodinst1. I have a test server(testserver) with instance Testinst1. As part of testing, our developers use testserver/TestInst1 database EXAMPLE. SPP backs up the database on pr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

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