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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup Support in the Red Hat OpenShift environment running on POWER platform

    Customer is creating new AI workloads on OpenShift running on IBM POWER servers. Spectrum Protect Plus v10.1.7 supports Linux x86_64, but not Linux on POWER.OpenShift is designed to enable portability to multiple platforms, but Spectrum Protect Pl...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Add possibility to choose SPP GUI communication IP when deploying VADP proxy

    When having multiple IPs for SPP GUI / VADP proxys, it's not possible to choose the communication IP for the VADP proxys to communicate with the SPP GUI host.This is only possible by accessing the VADP server itself and running a script "update_va...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    ISPP - reduce required free space in VG for DB2 backup

    Currently when protecting db2 with ISPP you need to have 20% free space in the VG containing the DB2 database to accommodate the LV snapshots taken during ISPP DB2 backup. This additional storage requirement increases backup costs which can add up...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus User Experience Enhancements

    User enhancement requests for Spectrum Protect Plus Make the dashboard interactive i.e. ability to drill down into the protection summary, the unprotected summary, failed jobs and running jobs. Make the dashboard customisable. All data accessible ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Allow "restriced" Account for Hypervisor Inventory

    Today it is required a) to create an account for the communication between the Spectrum Protect Plus appliance and the VMware vCenterb) assign permissions for that account within the vCenter "top down" from the vCenter level including inheritance ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Replication, Resume Backup on Target vSnap

    When vSnap replication for backups/SLA is enabled, incremental backup is only possible to the one, primary vSnap. If vSnap on primary site fails/unavailable, currently a new FULL backup on the secondary/replication site must be done, even if it ho...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP Container backup support unsupported storage class exclusion

    We wish to have a better exclusion feature for currently unsupported storage classes.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP connection to ILMT

    In our environment we collect all necessary licenses with ILMT for IBM spectrum protect. In SPP 10.1. according the documentation license requirements could be captured with ILMT (Chapter 19. Licensing).But with clarification on ILMT-side (TS00381...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Much better documentation of the SPP REST API for container backup (OpenShift) is urgently needed

    The official reference to the REST API (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSNQFQ_10.1.8/pdf/RestApiRef_v1018.pdf) only deals with two of the basic functions for starting an inventory search and an ad hoc backup with regard to OpenShift, if all other ste...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    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 ...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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