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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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

Restore by Tag

Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

allow VM exclusion via tagging in Spectrum Protect Plus

please add the capability to exclude VMs based upon specific vSphere Tags, in addition to the ability to include via tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under 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.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Move Restored VM in test mode to production (vMotion)

Restore VMware quickly and move to production environment
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

SCDM notify on failure only

SCDM should have an option to send notification emails on job failures only instead of for every result. I don't really need an email for a successful job.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM should support daylight savings time

SCDM should support daylight savings time
over 2 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...
almost 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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration