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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Add Nutanix Acropolis AHV as supported SPP Hypervisor

Please add Nutanix Acropolis AHV hypervisor to the supported Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisors.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP to show daily replication throughput

Customer needs to know the daily replication throughput and status for SPP vsnap replication.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GPFS instead of ZFS

Instead of ZFS we'd appreciate use of GPFS/Spectrum Scale with Protocols. The IBM Product has all capabilities to ensure a stable and scale-out infrastructure which is supported in all current Kernel Levels.Using GPFS will not have the impact on t...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
almost 7 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 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Expire individual backups in Spectrum Protect Plus

Expire individual host/application backups assigned to SLA policy
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

New OS & Oracle version support for SPP

VODAFONE TELCO need an Backup SW for those versions:It could be possible to support (three different options needed): 1) RedHat 6.42) RedHat 5.9 (if possible with Python 2.4)3) Oracle 10g They like SPP as Backup SW, but they NEED to support those ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Reusedelay-like option in Spectrum Protect Plus, similar to the option in Spectrum Protect

A reconciliation option between vSnap contents and SPP catalog, in the event that an SPP catalog restore is needed, so that at least some backup recoveries can be facilitated from those snaps missing meta data.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Class Encryption at rest i n Spectrum Protect Plus

Please add an encryption at rest capability with KMIP integration for external key management systems such as IBM SKLM
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: job monitor

In the Job monitor tab, add possiblity to filter entries to easily differentiate administrative tasks and backup tasks . Basically the Type column is already there but cannot be even used to sort the entries.Furthermore another column providing th...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration