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Add support for NFS v4 on vSnap Servers to close Vulnerabilities issues caused by NFS v3

Customer is having SPP 10.1.7 and Security team runs multiple Vulnerability Scan multiple times a year and they have identified vulnerability on vSnap servers related to NFS version. Current NFS version of the vSnap file system is V3. Can we inclu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for Azure MFA and other MFA providers

Given the focus on security, it would be of real benefit if the Spectrum Suite of applications (but specifically Protect, Protect Plus, Operations Centre) could support MFA for administrator logon, in particular Azure MFA.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add Azure native VM snapshots support to SPP

As of March 2021 SPP on Azure is capable to backup some DBs on Azure, but not VMson Azure.Add support for VMs will give SPP on Azure similar functionality comparing to SPP on premise
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Implement different "log options" for serviceability

SPP currently only offers one "log download" option, which always includes the vSnaps & VADP logs and a lot of SPP GUI logs.In larger envirnments with a few vSnaps & VADPs, we've seen those support packages grow to 6GB and take longer than...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SnapDiff API - NetAPP un-deprecated snapdiff ZAPIs in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases

Let me also give you some background information on SnapDiff APIs. Originally SnapDiff v1/v2 ZAPIs were deprecated in ONTAP 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 but were un-deprecated in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases. As long as you are on the most recent ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Ability to install Vintela on SPP + VSNAP servers for user access

The customer would like to have the ability to install Vintela on the SPP and VSNAP servers in their environment. This is to grant access to the team that supports SPP without having to give out the superuser or create a local account for each per...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CDM: Allow parallel mounts/restores to proxy/remote host (Windows)

CDM should allow and handle right mounting multiple snapshots of same type/application to another host (mount proxy/remote host) at the same time (Windows). Intention is to offload multiple MSSQL Server snapshots in parallel. It seems that OS/SCSI...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Retention set enhancements for multiple copies and replication

Currently creating multiple copies of retention sets are restricted. Firstly, you cannot create multiple (tape) copies of a single retention set. Secondly, if a node is replicated between multiple SP servers, you cannot create a retention set on b...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus direct archive to on-prem COS

Archive in an SPP SLA policy is only available to cloud services (ICOS, AWS, etc). I am requesting that the archive function in SPP allow for S3 connectivity to on-prem COS. I have a similar request in ID#151074.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for MS SQL filestream mode

Bosch is requesting Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) support for Microsoft (MS) SQL filestream mode. SPP should support full and incremental backups and restores of MS SQL databases running in filestream mode.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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