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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

add NetApp SnapVault Scheduling and File Indexing to SPP

In Spectrum Protect Plus it should be possible to trigger NetApp SnapVault snapshots to NetApp Secondary Storage Systems on Prem or on Cloud and to list existing snapshots and index the files they contain. Possible restores should also be triggere...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Most Expedient Full Datacenter Restore from Cloud

The copy to cloud offload feature is used generally as a secondary backup after the initial backup on vSnap and a secondary backup to a vSnap at another site. During the backup process, the changed blocks from the last snapshot are uploaded to the...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for TLS1.2 for VMware v6.0

Currently, TLS1.2 is supported for vSphere6.5+. Request for TLS1.2 support for VMware vSphere v6.0 for SPP v10.1.1.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under consideration

Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

RFE: Simplify management in allowing native user to cahnge their own password.

Any native user that is able to login into SPP should be able to set/change their own password regardless of the resource groups and roles assigned to them
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under 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 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

SPP Enhanced VMs view. Colomns sorting.

Enhanced the view of the VMs. Sorting by columns. Adding colums in the view so we can see options selected per VMS. Options per VMs in a reports also.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Needs more information

SPP PLUS: ENHANCE SPP TO UPDATE VM GUID INTO AN EXISTING BACKUP

-Enhance SPP plus to be able to update VM GUID into an existing backup.- An option that updates the globally unique identifier (GUID) for the virtual machine that are being backed up.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under consideration

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