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SPP RESTORE PRODUCTION

Our vmware team found a problem using the production restore method. They saw that just before the final step of the process, SPP makes vcenter delete the original virtual machine so that it could create the new one with the same unique identifier...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSnap needs to be more resilient for out of storage space scenarios

If vSnap storage runs out of space, the underlying zfs filesystem should be resilient enough to stop and restart without inconsistencies once additional storage is added.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CDM - request to not wait for the Flashcopy to complete copying before ending the job in the storage controller

- During restore the FC "volume snap" is currently mounted successfully via CDM- but no access is possible for an application e.g. VMware. - CDM waits for R/W operations until the complete FC is restored. Thus no immediate restore + use with CDM i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

A new policy update from BA client .optfile that does not allow overwrite a management class from BA client.

A server admin can update the .optfile from BA client by human error causing an overwrite of a management class at Spectrum Protect server, that is causing unexpected expiration of backups. For example, a configuration mistake pointing the .optfil...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Allow SLA associations to survive the move of associated guests from one hypervisor to another

possibility to migrate VM's between different vCenter systems. In this case today SPP track this as a new VM, but it is not a new VM it's the same as before.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP for VE - EFI BIOS Support

Provide a Support for proper restoring of VMware EFI BIOS. Every customer who uses Basic VMware Hardening won't use Legacy BIOS in Virtual Machines anymore. This should be a Basic Feature. For example Windows Boot Manager is nested into the EFI Bo...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow copy storage rules to select only active data AND to allow selection of from-date and to-date for copy to tape in fully hydrated tape copies.

This is useful because starting from scratch and trying to copy multiple inactive as well as the active copy of extremely large data backups (for example Epic databases) to tape for hydrated copies takes an extremely long time. The library is unav...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Identify individual VM backup sessions during a SLA backup

Once a SLA is running, it would be nice to see in a list which VM's completed the backup successfully, which failed, which are running and which will run, to help monitor and take appropriate actions if needed.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Option to select files to restore from a directory tree view

SPP to allow file-level restore not just by searching for files or folder, but also by expanding a directory tree to input multiple selections
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Decommission VM confirmation with filespace name

When decommission is run for example:DECOMMISSION VM VMNAME 999 NAMETYPE=FSID No confirmation of what filespace/vmname is shown. The confirmation message:ANR3392W DECOMMISSION VM: This command will decommission the specified virtual machine. The a...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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