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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) Future consideration

SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

.NVRAM and vTPM restore needed with DP for VE VMware

Restore of a VMware guest does not include .NVRAM and vTPM. VMware points out, that backup software should take care of backup and restore of these two objects.https://vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/8f96698a-0e7b-4d67-bb6c-d18a1d10...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Future consideration

Support Red Hat IPA for mmuserauth

Red Hat IPA / FreeIPA is an identity and authentication source similar to Active Directory. It has LDAP for user information, and kerberos for authentication. It can integrate with Active Directory through trust and replication, and will then cont...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Planned for future release

Protocols SMB online update support

With Spectrum Scale Protocols 5.0, SMB Update node by node should be possible online without downtime/business impact.Actually this is not possible.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Dedup enabled on replication

The request is for deduplication being enabled when replicating between different vsnap repository
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Trigger email/report when sla run contains failed vms

If a job that has run contains failed vms, sytem should send out email/report to pre-defined address to report this incident.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Segregation of Duties in Spectrum Protect server

Client wants to completely segregate the authority to manage accounts in Spectrum Protect from all other Spectrum Protect authorizations.Current setup where a System account is required to manage admin IDs and -rights which includes all other righ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Migrating IBM Spectrum Protect Servers from One Operating System to Another

Currently there is support of migrating an IBM Spectrum Protect server from AIX to Linux x86_64 via extractdb/insertdb but not the other way around.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration