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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Replication job shows as error

SPP shows a replication job as a failure, but only because there was nothing to replicate not because of an actual error. Perhaps the error message type could be changed here so the job doesn't fail.
almost 5 years 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 ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP Should keep job logs for restores longer

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus keeps job logs for restores only 3 days. This is not sufficient for historical reporting purposes. The retention of job logs, including those for restore operations should be user-configurable, and the default should be s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: way to browse files for restore

Give a way to pull up an index of files that were backed up for a specific VM on a specific day. Basically copy pulling up a point in time restore browser that is in the normal SP client.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

The Protection summary screen shouldn't show the replica VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus "Protection Summary" screen shows our replica machines that replicated with Recover Point.This is a misleading situation. Both our machine count and the number of machines that are not backed up seem wrong.It needs to be fixed.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP during Resouce Registration have option to sign to resource group

During customer Meeting, it was asked if during registration of resource they could have the ability to assign resource to a resource group
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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