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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP permits to install aditional software as monitoring.

Customer needs to install a monitoring software in the SPP and Vsnap Appliances. This is an important requirement to move to production this environment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Metadata Search for Repository backups

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs the ability to keep track of VMware metadata for backups once a a backup is moved off to a repository or S3 location. Not having the ability search for metadata (file search) on long term repository backups defeat s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make GUI less mouse-scrolling-mayham

When working in GUI (I long for a CLi) it is divided into different parts using scrollable text-boxes. No part of GUI seem to be resizable, which makes working in GUI hard. When choosing a SLA I need to scroll the SLA-policy-text-box and if I scro...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve VM Restore GUI

Remove the necessity of choosing "Type of Restore." Make one of the options (on-demand) the default. Add a button to show all available restore points without having to poke around in the calendar.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Suppport FreeNAS S3 as S3 compatible Object Storage

FreeNAS/TrueNAS is a commonly used small to medium software appliance for storage. It provides S3 API via Minio and is compatible with S3.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect API for DB2 does not allow to set 'set protect size' info. Hence OC does not count it for License check

Nodes being used for DB2 database backup using TSM client API are not reporting to front end capacity usage (in Operation Center). Hence unable to utilize OC for license calculation. Refer PMR Numbers TS001718996 and TS002594393.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DB backup not running on all nodes in oracle

we have customers with oracle DBs that have some DBs registered in all nodes but that are not running in all nodes, and the SPP cannot backup these DBs, it is necessary to make the SPP capable of doing so
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Needs more information

Move Restored VM in test mode to production (vMotion)

Restore VMware quickly and move to production environment
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Show Unprotected Applications

As the System discovers "unprotected VMs" and "unprotected Databases/Applications", I'd like to get a query / view, which are these.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

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