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SP Plus interface enhancement: vm search and selection

In the SP Plus interface, in the backup tab (/pages/hypervisor/vmware/backup) , while searching a VM to assign it to a particular SLA Policy, it would be nice to have a filter available to limit the scope of the search. First thing I think about i...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change the user running admin schedules

It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Exclude certain days or months from SLA policy jobs

Spectrum Protect Plus in-built scheduler doesn't have the ability to not run backups on certain days.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Multiple Retentions Standard object storage

The ability to have multiple retentions in Standard Object Storage going to a repository server on Spectrum Protect.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for Backing up Cassandra Database with Spectrum Protect Plus

Customer is in planning stages to deploy Cassandra Database in their environment and require the capability to use their current Spectrum Protect licenses to provide data protection to these applications.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Define SQL Server backup replica node in SPP for SQL Availability Group

SPP uses the SQL Server backup preferences to choose the replica SQL Server node where the backup will be made in an Avalilabity Group. However, we would like to have the possibility to define the node where the backup will take place in the SPP i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add support for SNI in TLS handshake when using TLS/SSL

When using SSL/TLS from clients, the handshake towards the server should include SNI in order to better support centralized certificate management when using e.g. SSL offloading hosts RFC 6066 specifies:It is RECOMMENDED that clients include an ex...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

S3 Object Agent: Allow non ISPP application the use of "coldpool"

In the actual release of Spectrum Protect (8.1.12) the use of the "coldpool" in a Object Domain of Spectrum Protect is limited to the archive feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.External S3 clients are can only use a directory container pool as a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP needs to display the identity used for a VADP proxy

When a VADP proxy is configured, credentials must be supplied. Whether an SPP IDENTITY is used or not is optional, but only those VADP proxies configured using an IDENTITY are automatically updated when the SPP GUI server is rebooted. Therefore, i...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client is needed for Red Hat Version 8

No supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client for Redhat Version 8 currently exists.Unfortunately, So far there are no news or any estimated time when Spectrum Protect products will support the Redhat V8.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

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