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Storage Protect Family

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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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - Retention Lock for retention sets

System: Spectrum Protect Server - all platformsActor: User needing new function Description: Request to develop a new feature which can lock a retention set from being deleted prior to its set expiry day. The feature can be termed as "Retention Lo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Document required "sudo" permissions

The requirement for a single file recovery within Spectrum Protect Plus is to implement a sudo-configuration on each protected VM to assign:sppagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Show various command line options and/or help options for dsmserv using -h or --help flag

The proposal is provide -h or --help option for storage protect server command line. Storage Protect Server can be started with various options. Currently the user has to go through SP documentation to know these options, as the command line does ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Immutable Flag for ext4/xfs file systems

Please introduce support to use immutable flags in container and file storage pools for linux file systems like ext4 and xfs
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Select datastore per VMDK during restore

When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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