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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Spectrum Protect Plus - Sortable & Searchable columns in running jobs progress & job logs

Requesting sort and search functions be added to the Spectrum Protect Plus UI. Specifically in the Jobs and Operations section, while viewing a job log and progress fields.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Loss of change block tracking files

Implement a mechanism allowing in the event of loss or corruption of CBT files not to redo a full backup.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Integrity control for stored datas on vsnap

Set up an integrity check to validate that the data that was copied to the vsnap server are valid.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Container Storage Interface support of Endurance storage and Portworx storage.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Storage Interface currently do not support Endurance storage or Portworx.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support IBM S3 interfaces provided by IBM products on SPP+

The only supported S3 interface from IBM is "IBM CLOUD SORAGE". Technote 1087149 lists the "s3 compatible storage providers" and there is not ONE product listed there from IBM. Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale come to mind, but I am SURE there...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow client migration from VSNAP to OSSM and back again

Currently to migrate a client from OSSM to Vsnap storage requires deleting ALL recovery points for that client. This is worse than migrating to a different backup vendor. I have NO backups for that client simply because I want to change my backend...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Since Repository server will not allow SPP+ Catalog backup , support "S3 Compatible on TSM server", Then backup Catalog to S3 on TSM.

I have an open PMR because I already have TSM with a tape based Disaster recovery solution because I have no networked second site to use as a DR capability. We are not Internet connected with these systems, which removes typical S3 DR solutions, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM -Change virtual restore SCSI controller from VMware LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual

SCDM RFE - Currently, when SCDM performs restores of the virtual environment, it creates a SCSI controller in the vCenter that is set to LSI Logic SAS. The request is to change the SCSI controller from LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

disable encryption during replication

We provide datacenter service, enterprise backup and disaster recovery services to our customers. That's why we need to backup our customers' data under the SLA we have committed.As we tested we are not satisfied about Spectrum Protect Plus's repl...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Restoring deleted data on Object Storage

We provide datacenter and data protection service over Spectrum Protect Plus to our customers.We also provide cloud service over Zadara, added Zadara as S3 compatible on Spectrum Protect Plus. Zadara has a feature that enables us to restore a dele...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

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