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Storage Protect Family

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SPP reporting for Daily, Monthly backup status

SPP reporting has currently some good reports but there is no report with clear Backup completion report.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Option for a Policy with Zero Retention / No Backup

We have several VMs in our environment that we do NOT want to backup. We tag these VMs with #No-Backup. However, there is currently no way in SPP to omit these VMs from the stats or associate them with a ‘No-Backup' Policy with a zero-day retentio...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments

Currently there is no support for backups of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments with TSM/ISP4VE (which is stated in the documentation). Due to the fact that some customers require encryption for their VMware environments, support for the new (V6.5...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

CentOs as a supported OS for TDP for VE datamover

Having RHEL 7 as supported Environment, and having CentOS 7 as supported in Spectrum Protect, it is highly appreciated to enhance support for running TDPVMware datamover and mountproxy in CentOS as well.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enable more than 1 LDAP server for authentication because it is a single point of failure

System: SPP server 10.1.8Feature: Currently the SPP server only allows for 1 LDAP server entry. This is a single point of failure. There is no redundancy, if that single LDAP server is down there is no way for the team to log-in, because we do not...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Client Support for SnapDiff API v2

The possibility of using of FlexGroup volume is very necessary for us as supercomputing centre. First by using of FlexGroup volume is possible excite the 100TB boundary of other kinds of NetApp volumes.Working backup with SP Client of such volumes...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add TDP for Oracle to Retention Sets type of data that can be included

Currently, retention sets allow TDP for SQL, B/A Client, TDP for Mail, DP for VE (both VMware and Hyper-V) but only TDP for DB - Oracle is NOT supported and this is reallly needed for long term retention - there's a class of backups that is comple...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication Workload

The workload value for the node replication in spectrum protect is based on an estimated value. The complete history of this value is visible when the summary table is filtered for activity='REPL_WORKLOAD'. The last value of repl_workload is also ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support for MS Sharepoint

Support for the protect of Microsoft Sharepoint environments on-premis. File-level recovery.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Ability to export support logs out of OperationsCenter GUI

In case of problems with the ISP environment it is needed to open a problem ticket and provide various log files from the ISP server. If the Operations Center is used it should be able to extract the logfiles out of the Operations Center. (e.g. ac...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration