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Spectrum Protect Plus support for HNAS CSI Driver

Hitachi HNAS CSI Driver support is needed to backup Openshift persistent volumes with IBM's Spectrum Protect Plus. HNAS CSI Driver Documentation URL link: https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Storage/NAS_Platform/Best_practices/Hitachi_N...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

When attemting to start a DP for SQL DB restore it starts immediately without warning

When the customer starts a DB restore it starts immediately without warning the customer that the restore will be done to the existing database. A warning message should appear to the customer before starting the restore explaining that the "Resto...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

SSL management enhancement

I have 2 related requests: Currently SP clients above V8.12/7.1.8 use TLS/SSL by default only encrypt authentication and session meta data. Full session encryption requires that ssl yes be added to the client dsm.opt/dsm.sys. I would like to see t...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

IBM Spetcrum Protect or SPP cross-hypervisor restore for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure)

Cross-hypervisor restore feature for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure) is a feature already supported in competitor solutions ie Commvault .
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide SPP GUI Server for more platforms than VMWare and Hyper-V

The central Spectrum Protect Plus management server can be deployed as a virtual machine on VMWare or Hyper-V. But there are customers that want to protect workloads like Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, DB2, Mongo DB etc. with Spectrum Protect Plus, wh...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add http/https proxy support to Spectrum Protect Server (cloud storage pools)

Spectrum Protect Server don't have the option to configure a http/https proxy to communicate to internet. When a cloud storage pool is configured, the server must to communicate with the cloud provider directly.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance

We need options to On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance.Currently we need to select one by one database to on-demand backup.Best way is to have the 2 options, select one database or all of an instance.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Rebalancing datamovers for a TAG-based schedule should exclude EXCLUDED VMs

When running a command to rebalance assigned datamovers for a TAG-based schedule I was surprised that the VMs with TAG 'Ecxluded' of category 'Backup Management (IBM Spectrum Protect)' was included and had a datamover-tag assigned. The rebalancing...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Backup of Microsoft Teams Chat transcripts in Protect Plus Office365

Working with a customer who is moving to Office 365 and needs a product to provide backups. As a Spectrum Protect customer today they looked at Protect Plus for Office 365, but the IBM solution lacks the capability to backup the Microsoft Teams "C...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP original storage policy during restore instead of default policy

If a customer uses multiple storage policies and a restore is preformed, SPP assigns the default storage policy by default. The customer has to select the original storage policy manually, which can be easily forgotten during a restore.It would be...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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