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Storage Protect Family

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Backup data from ESX host without vcenter

Spectrum Protect Plus requires vcenter in virtual machine backups.But not every customer has vCenter, their virtual environment only runs on the ESX host.In addition, many backup products can take backups from the ESX host without the need for vce...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Lack of anomaly scanning integration with IBM Spectrum Protect Family

Lack of anomaly scanning integration to detect, diagnose and recover clean copies from a Cyber attack with IBM Spectrum Protect Family.Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption an IBM supported Cyber Resiliency solution.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

SQL log backup status

The status of the SQL log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. The Dashboard or on the section named Application - SQL - Backup would be helpful.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP progress on Job's

SPP does not show any proper progress details like for other admin job's
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Archive feature for S3 compatible devices

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus supports Amazon S3 Glacier to archive backup data.But for S3 compatible devices it only supports standard object storage buckets not archive.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/does-ibm-spectrum-protect-plus-support-s3-comp...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP - Support for Dataguard

We would like to use SPP to backup our Oracle Databases. Most of the areas at the city will be moving to Dataguard later this year. If this is not supported then we cannot use SPP for this.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Vmmaxvirtualdisks bigger than 8 TB

We have customers with disk bigger than 8 TB.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Add VMware Tape support to ISP Server

Today ISP is supported as an ESX Guest but with a carve out for tape.https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546#VMware%20ESX%20Guest Historically this was due to the ESX 5.x limitation that explicitly did not support tape. VMware h...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

additional status "MAINTENANCE" for drives and paths

Drives and paths only the both status' ONLINE and OFFLINE. An additional one "MAINTENANCE" or "OFFLINE asap" would be extremely useful for the preparation of maintenance (especially unplanned due to an error) to get a library free of accesses.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Using an external Key Management System for ISP Client encrytion

At the moment there is no possibility to connect an external key management system for the ISP client encryption. The key is either generated automatically by the ISP server or has to be entered manually. We need a posibility to connect the ISP Cl...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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