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OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Azure HCI support for SPP

Hallo Please consider support for Azure HCI.
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Needs more information

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