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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Delete Backups in Vsnap repository

SPP 10.1.1 allows expiration of specific recovery points... But that's expiring all the VMs included in that recovery point within the SLA. It still do not have the ability to expire individual VMs within a policy...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under 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 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP SSL Certificate upload needs significant improvement

The process to upload an SSL certificate for Spectrum Protect Plus is unclear and misleading. The "manage your certificates" upload screen in the admin console states that the supported certificate format are cer and crt. These are also listed as ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP 10.1.1 removed ability for user to change their own password?

In SPP 10.1.1, it appears a natively defined user is not able to change their own password which is a change from previous version of 10.1.0.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC vPlex (VNXe/Unity)

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs and vPlex on VNXe/Unity for mission critical VMs.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for HPe 3PAR

Customer (a large SP and competition (mainly for VMware) user) is running an RFI concerning backup/recovery. Part of this RFI is protection of VMware. Customer is using HP 3PAR hardware for their VMware vSphere enviroment.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC Compellent

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs. Customer also use vPlex+VNXe for mission critical VMs.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

VADP Proxy should be available as an appliance

The SPP server is available as an appliancevSnap server is available as an appliancebut VADP Proxy requires install of RHEL and installation of VADP Proxy software.This doesn't make any sense since the VADP Proxy already are part of the SPP server...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

allow SPP to intelligent selection for VADP transport mode

testing has shown that if using a virtual VADP proxy, the HotAdd transport is good for large amounts of data transfer, but NBD is better for smaller data transfers since there is a small amount of time spent establishing HotAdd. It would be good t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

allow VM exclusion via tagging in Spectrum Protect Plus

please add the capability to exclude VMs based upon specific vSphere Tags, in addition to the ability to include via tagging.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration