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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 9, 2021

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Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance High Availability

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance holds critical Data to backup and restore VMs.

At present there is no way to make this Highly Available (HA) similar to Vsphere appliance.

During normal operation we should be able to:

Switch to secondary site and switch back for Disaster compliance testing.

Create HA on the appliance.

In Disaster mode:

No action would be required as the secondary appliance is switched over and backup and restore will continue without any additional human intervention.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Jul 21, 2021

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 30, 2021

    Hi Team,

    I have read the article and none of the advise option will successfully apply to the feature request.

    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-provide-high-availability-ibm-spectrum-protect-plus-server



    Most organization will have multiple Vmware site manage by multiple Vcentre hence

    This document provides guidance on running the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server in the following configurations:
    VMware vSphere High Availability (HA)

    This only applies to a site on 1 cluster or in a metro setup. ( most to all clients would not have the required latency to setup metro ).


    VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)

    Fault tolerance is for scenario with same site and storage(s) in one location, which would not work if the second site is at another location manage by a second vcentre.


    Microsoft failover clustering.

    The appliance is a vmware ova so this is not work and for vmware customer. In any case they would face the same issue as the above comments.

    What is needed is an independent HA for Spectrum Protect Plus appliance without the need for hypervisor features.

    This would eliminate any dependence as it could be that the Vcentre appliance that is required to be restored before any virtual machine.

    Scenario:

    Vcentre appliance corrupts or fails.

    That means HA, Faulty Tolerance will fail to provide HA for Spectrum Protect Plus.

    Please contact me privately on a call if you would like to know my use case.

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