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Storage Protect Family

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Add vSnap Utilisation to the 'Protected VMs Report'

There is not currently an option within SPP to show how much capacity a particular VM is using on the vSnap Storage. This could be displayed either in the vSnap Utilisation Report, or the Protected VMs report.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Bare Metal Restore (BMR) from backupsets

I get confirmation from developer that we have no valuable workaround with the WINPE + ASR method . We will update the WINPE document .As said before you must open a RFE if you need this functionality to be added in the future.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

OpenStack backup with Spectrum Protect Plus

Our important customer is asking for remote API backup of OpenStack environment. Preferred support with Spectrum Protect Plus (as the extend container support) but Spectrum Protect API combination could be another variant.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Hello, for us is need the adjustment of the plugin like in the previous versions 8.1.14, where there is the possibility of changing the GUI address on the vecenter (with the plugin).

For us is need the adjustment of the plugin like in the previous versions 8.1.14, where there is the possibility of changing the GUI address on the vecenter (with the plugin).
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Choose wich disc to restore in Data Protection for Hyper-V

In Dataprotection for Hyper-V it would be very nice if we can choose wich disc to restore.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Inherited VM options on a per backup policy level

Backup policies defined on a per tag basis are allowed to inherit the parent options associated with the tag (i.e. defining proxy server, snapshot retries, application/filesystem consistency, etc.). As these options get defined for a single tag, t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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

Policy Overview

Protection by policy shows number of VMs protected, but doesn't allow further investigation. Should be able to click on policy and see associated VMs.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need function in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of SQL Server database

Customer requires functionality in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of a SQL Server database. This is related to GDPR.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

Need to be able to move data between container pools

Need to have the ability to move data between container pools as needed. This includes: Directory to DirectoryCloud to CloudCloud to Directory
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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