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Storage Protect Family

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More control options for a running restore without having to abort it. (dynamically change timeout value, ...)

Spectrum Protect has several time out values to detect „sick, but not dead“ situations and for a good reason actively terminates sessions when specified time out value has been reached.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Detailed VM Backup Utilization report

This RFE is for improving the reporting function. What I think SPP is in need of is a more detailed report of storage usage per VM or application. More specific a presentation of deduplication ratio and compression ratio, with sizes in bytes - bef...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Save the last copy

We have seen scenarios where VMware Virtual Machines just disrepair out from vCenter because of VMX file has been corrupted, or has been deleted of mistake.And because of the server or service hasn't been that important or been used that offend. W...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP server to support IBM S3 cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking

When using Cloud Storage Pool in a Spectrum Protect Server , it should support all the features that can be set at the S3 level ( especially when the S3 cloud is IBM !! ) like Cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking.For retent...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Customer needs more detail on client activity to be able to manage backups effectively

A customer needs more information to be able to effectively manage client backups. If a client experiences an exception, it is important to be able to look at its historical success and failure and workload. Specifically, in the details section fo...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add information to Operations Center to make client management better.

A customer needs more information in the operations center to be able to effectively manage client backups, particularly exceptions in the data protection services. For example, the current columns that can be selected include the at-risk status a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SPP - Enable 'disable log capability' to SQL Ad Hoc Backup

In an SQL Always-On (clustered) DB restore, we need the ability to disable log backups using the SQL Ad-Hoc backup function.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP GUI integrated in SP OC

if SPP Vsnap will have a direct integration with SP, GUIs should also be integrated. This integration could be show as only one product with different features.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More flexibility in assigning rights to administrators

In large/complex environments with multiple people having administrative access to the Spectrum Protect server, it is desirable to be able to have better granularity on the rights assigned to each person/login or group. This is in order to be able...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SP for VE: Remove or increase 8TB size VMware virtual machine disks limit

To be able to protect large VMware vmdk files using Spectrum Protect fot Virtual Environments, can the limit on vmmaxvirtualdisks option be increased or removed?
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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