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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SQL Service User per SQL instance

We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup of VMs using 'View: Datastore' but it does not allow VM exclusion

Customer sets VMWare backup jobs to use View: Datastore He cannot exclude individual VMs from a datastore view (you cannot click on the datastore and browse to exclude VMs). He would have to assign the datastore to the SLA then go to View: VM and ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide a guide or option in Operations Center to change from tape to replserver pool protection

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center throws an error stating the server is configured to use container-copy pools to protect data to tape, and that you can't configure replication for the server. However, neither the message, nor the built-in he...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Is a defect

SPP - Ability to deploy SPP server VM in KVM

Customers requires to run SP server and SPP server in one box / server HW, but SPP server is not supported to run i KVM.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP micro version

We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration