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Need a way to move clients between vsnap servers to load balance use of vsnaps

Customer would like the ability to move clients from one vsnap to another to help balance the use of the vsnap servers in their environment.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Better performance/parallelism on generate dedupstats

It will be usefull to be able to use "generate dedupstats" to generate daily usage information for nodes/nodegroups on a multitenant setup.Unfortunately, the performance of the current "generate dedupstats" makes it impossible for us to generate t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

postgreSQL Support

PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases. We see this requirement in RFIs.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Retention rule Media be part of DRM

If you are using Container Pool and want to create a air-gap copy of your data, either you do a protect storage pool to protect everything to your tape device or if you want to keep a offline copy for a longer period then the normal policy domain ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Activities history (audits).

Hallo As we see, practically, there is no user (admin) activity logs in the SPP. It is not possible for example, to track, who and when apply or remove SLA from VM or application. It would be nice to have activities list for different operations, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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