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Search results: Storage Protect Family

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IBM SPP needs to display the identity used for a VADP proxy

When a VADP proxy is configured, credentials must be supplied. Whether an SPP IDENTITY is used or not is optional, but only those VADP proxies configured using an IDENTITY are automatically updated when the SPP GUI server is rebooted. Therefore, i...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: vm search and selection

In the SP Plus interface, in the backup tab (/pages/hypervisor/vmware/backup) , while searching a VM to assign it to a particular SLA Policy, it would be nice to have a filter available to limit the scope of the search. First thing I think about i...
almost 6 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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

allow SPP to intelligent selection for VADP transport mode

testing has shown that if using a virtual VADP proxy, the HotAdd transport is good for large amounts of data transfer, but NBD is better for smaller data transfers since there is a small amount of time spent establishing HotAdd. It would be good t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Multisite Connect

When backing up a big VMware environment it is necessary that the customer can select multiple vCenters as source and multiple Spectrum Protect Servers as Backup destination.Enable management of data protection for multiple vCenters from a single ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SPP report backup data stored and transferred for each VM machine in XLS and SCV output format for selected time frame.

Our customer is charged for transferred and stored backup data. We are missing option to schedule report with option to select time frame. At best to have output in XLS and mainly SCV format which can be imported to SACR (Smart Automated Capacity ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fix ANS1715E different virtual machine UUID error message

When backing up a virtual machine for which the UUID has changed, the following error is thrown:ANS4308E Full VM backup of 'Hyper-V' Virtual Machine 'WS50115' failed with RC=4379 mode=Incremental Forever - Incremental, target node name='CLSIM261_H...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Remove from SLA button

When modifying subject being backed up by a specific SLA, it would be more user friendly if you added a "Remove SLA" / "Unassign from SLA" button. Now i need to "Select a SLA Policy" to actually unselect a subject from a SLA.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need ability to hold a VADP proxy idle, in reserve, to quickly run ad-hoc jobs (or expedite/prioritise job to head of queue).

We have SLAs that run snapshot backups of VMs, each night. These jobs queue hundreds of VMs to have snapshots taken, and it takes hours for these to complete. Any adhoc snapshot or restore job that we launch during this backup window has to wait h...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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