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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP monthly storage & billling report

Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 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

Provide License Report Granularity on Users/Roles/Resource Groups

In order to represent and determine a cost model for the usage of SPP, please enhance the licensing report (System > License) to be able to select additional options/filters. Filters should be bound to resource groups, users or roles. Target is...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

starting SLA dialog not enough information

When you manually start an SLA, a "Start Options" dialog box pops up and you have to click "OK" to start the SLA, it would be nice if you can see which SLA (the name of the SLA) you are starting... All you see is the words "SLA Policy" and a combo...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster

Need the ability to isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Summary of all SLA Timings

A Gannt view of SLA timings would illustrate resource utilisation, where it may be useful to change schedule times to avoid contention and where extra resources may be neededCould also compare the previous night with the average from the past week...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus SQL Log backups not snapshotted replicated until DB backups initiated

SQL Log backups in SPP in CIFS share are not snapshotted until the next DB backup and its subsequent snapshot. Similarly, SQL log backup snapshots are only replicated when the SQL DB backup snapshot replication is scheduled.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus backups with VMware Storage DRS

Client has VMware Storage DRS enabled. Spectrum Protect Plus checks the previous location of the VM on the datastore. If it has been moved as a result of DRS, it performs a full base backup.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

excel report output without nice formatting would be better

The reporting feature of Spectrum protect plus has two output formats. PDF and Excel.To work with the data in bulk, excel is the preferred output, but it has too much formatting applied. I need one line outputs. Not the server name on one line and...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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