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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap

SPP doesn't support re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap in the event of primary vSnap pool corruption/data loss. A full baseline backup is initiated if backups pointed to secondary or to a new built primary vSnap.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP integration n the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO)

We have an urgent request from a Bank in Spain in UK to have IBM SPP integrated in the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO) We heard that there are plans fro Q3 2019 but the customer will not accept this and wants the integration to happen...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Instant VMDK Restore with Overwrite Capabilities

German customer would like the option of restoring VMDK over top of the exisiting original VMDK. The restore today only mounts the VMDK in parallel when recovered back to the original. Competitor VMware VDP for which SPP replaced was able to do a ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

additional info collumns to job monitoring

Please add additional colums for Total transfer size and Throughput in overview of jobs. (Monitoring)
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

File Level Restore Enhancements

Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Make the dashboard more focused on showing information and enabling actions at a per VM and application level

The product needs to be a lot more VM and application centric from a management perspective. What end users would like is backup information per VM and application in the dashboard, a list of VMs and applications showing when each VM and applicati...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus GUI national language support

Request for SPP GUI in Japanese.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

IBM SPP to allow MS-SQL Restore to Standby State

Customer would like to have the ability to restore MS-SQL database to the Standby state.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release