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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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.
over 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.
over 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.
over 6 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 ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Loss of change block tracking files

Implement a mechanism allowing in the event of loss or corruption of CBT files not to redo a full backup.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Move Restored VM in test mode to production (vMotion)

Restore VMware quickly and move to production environment
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 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.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should not require Oracle "recover until snapshot" command when hot backup is not used

During Oracle recoveries SCDM, if hot backup is not used to create the backup, will use the Oracle "recover until snapshot" command which invokes the Oracle Advanced Compression Snapshot Optimization license. This is expensive. Alternatively, ther...
about 3 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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