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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP Needs fallback for vmx-04 (without cbt = full)

Spectrum Protect Plus does not backup VMs with virtual machine hardware version (vmx) 04, because this version does not support CBT (changed block tracking). Spectrum Protect VE does backup these machines but makes a full backup every time (fallba...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP Support for IBM Informix

Customer requests support for Informix in SPP. Our Customer is interested in the reuse feature because this is important for their business.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Offload to multiple Spectrum Protect Repositories

Current problem is, only one Spectrum Protect Repository can be adressed using accesskey and secret key. But we need to offload to multiple servers, due to contingency reasons. We think restriction does not make any sense, and we were glad if this...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP permits to install aditional software as monitoring.

Customer needs to install a monitoring software in the SPP and Vsnap Appliances. This is an important requirement to move to production this environment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Show Unprotected Applications

As the System discovers "unprotected VMs" and "unprotected Databases/Applications", I'd like to get a query / view, which are these.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Backup of VMs using 'View: Datastore' but it does not allow VM exclusion

Customer sets VMWare backup jobs to use View: Datastore He cannot exclude individual VMs from a datastore view (you cannot click on the datastore and browse to exclude VMs). He would have to assign the datastore to the SLA then go to View: VM and ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM under SPP

VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM : This option allowss Sp for VE tolerates VM with RDMs. It is necessary because these SO VMs can't be saved with SPP.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Oracle RAC One Node with Spectrum Protect Plus

We need a protection with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration with 2 servers nodes and differents db instances in the both nodes. In the Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.x fail applications inventory with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Manually running cloud offload per VM

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run VM backups manually by selecting the VM and clicking the "run" button.When we want run replication or offload we need to run the schedule.We should be able run run replication or offload jobs per VM manually ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration