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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Change default to Power On VM for clone and production restores

Restore functionality - Power on VM - Production & clone restore powers on Shouldn't be default to power on as Power On VM was not ticked. Default should be leave powered off unless that option is ticked
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enable option to manually add ESXi host for restore onto

Restore function request – Recover to ESXi host - should option to manually add rather than just poll inventorised ESXi hosts
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM details in Dashboard

Show list of VMs protected and SLA protected under and VMs not protected as a list in the Dashboard. Customers want to know which VMs have successfully backed up overnight and which have failed. The Dashboard does a good job of showing this at an ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for nested LDAP groups and a test LDAP function

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups and enable a test function for LDAP setup
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

3 sites Support

Hi, we are receiving requirements about 3 Site Support. It is very necessary for our Customer. This a mandatory requirement from regulator.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SQL log backup status

The status of the SQL log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. The Dashboard or on the section named Application - SQL - Backup would be helpful.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus SQL Log backups not snapshotted replicated until DB backups initiated

SQL Log backups in SPP in CIFS share are not snapshotted until the next DB backup and its subsequent snapshot. Similarly, SQL log backup snapshots are only replicated when the SQL DB backup snapshot replication is scheduled.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus backups with VMware Storage DRS

Client has VMware Storage DRS enabled. Spectrum Protect Plus checks the previous location of the VM on the datastore. If it has been moved as a result of DRS, it performs a full base backup.
about 6 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.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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