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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore by Tag

Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support to backing up MongoDB on Ubuntu servers

We have MongoDB on Ubuntu servers and need to backup them.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Backing up prefered SQL Always-on node

We want to be able to choose which node to backup on a SQL Always-on infrastructure.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SCDM On IBM Spectrum Virtualize can not do FC/GM Workflow

when crating an SLA selecting Spectrum Virtualize, can not doa FC then GM workflow, this is fully supported by the storage
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM 3-site replication target support

on FS storage when a 3-site replication is setup, SCDM can not do any action on the 3-site replication target volume
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: use OpenJDK for vSnap VADP Proxy

Currently SPP installs openJDK pkg during installation and upgrade phase. However Oracle Java is still beign used for VADP proxy of vSNAP server. Due to licensing we would appreciate if only one Java has been used.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

SCDM should allow for customization of permissions it sets on Oracle directories, or just leave the permissions alone.

SCDM changes the existing permissions on the /apps/oracle/admin directory and other files when an instant oracle database restore is performed. SCDM should either put them back exactly the way were before the restore job started, or allow for cust...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration