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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus V10.1.7 Released November 20, 2020 - Detailed Information

By Christopher Rogers posted Tue November 24, 2020 07:16 PM

  
The team for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus released version 10.1.7 on November 20th, 2020. This release contains quite a few new features, the most I have seen for a release in a while. Here is a list of the new features, for additional information about the features visit here:

  • Protect container clusters on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
    With added support for OpenShift Container Platform by using OpenShift API Data Protection (OADP) technology, you can preview the Container Backup Support component of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to protect your OpenShift clusters in a non-production environment.
  • Protect Red Hat OpenShift cluster-scoped and namespace-scoped resources
    Preview the protection capabilities of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for cluster-scoped and namespace-scoped resources with the integration of Velero technology. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus can protect these resources by namespace, resource type, or label. This ability offers you more flexibility when you select which container data to back up and restore.
  • Protect Kubernetes cluster-scoped and namespace-scoped resources
    You can use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to protect cluster-scoped and namespace-scoped resources with the integration of Velero technology. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus can protect these resources by namespace, resource type, or label. This capability offers you more flexibility when you select which container data to back up and restore.
  • Deploy IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a container
    Preview the advantages of the agility, speed, security, efficiency, and ease of management of containers by installing IBM Spectrum Protect Plus on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Deploy IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in the same environment as the data that is being protected to give you the freedom from provisioning a separate virtual or physical environment. By running IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in a container environment, you can protect container and other workloads from within the same product deployment environment.
  • Restore container data to alternative namespaces and clusters
    You can use Container Backup Support to restore cluster-scoped and namespace-scoped resources in addition to PVCs. If necessary you can choose to restore data to an alternative namespace or cluster, or a combination of both.
  • Support for IBM® block storage CSI driver 1.2.0 for Container Backup Support
    You can now preview the protection capability of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for volume data that was allocated by a storage plug-in that supports IBM block storage CSI driver 1.2.0 in the IBM Spectrum Virtualize environment.
  • Install Container Backup Support by using Helm 3
    Installation of the Container Backup Support component of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus now supports Helm 3.
  • VMware enhancements
    • Restore your VM data with a production restore, which introduces the ability to overwrite a VM disk with a VM disk from a previous backup operation. This capability preserves the configuration of the new VM while overwriting the disk with the disk from a previous backup.
    • Limit the scope of your VM backup jobs by excluding certain VMs from backup jobs by using their associated VM tags. This improves the time that it takes to complete VMware backup jobs.
  • Microsoft 365 enhancements
    In addition, the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus inventory process is enhanced to match the Microsoft 365 Apps view of tenants and accounts, which makes it easier for you to find the item you are looking for whether it is a OneDrive or an Outlook item. With this enhancement, for example you can set up different SLA policies for all Outlook or all OneDrive accounts more easily.
    Microsoft 365 reports are added so that you can run reports for a full tenant, or specify OneDrive or Outlook. These reports show you information about the protected and unprotected accounts, backup compliance, and backup performance.
  • Windows file systems enhancements
    You can retrieve the files and directories you are looking for more easily by using the search capability on the File-level Restore interface. When you are setting up a restore job, you can search for a file or string to help you to locate a particular file. You can also use the search function to locate a specific directory.
  • Deprecation of the internal vSnap and VADP proxy
    The internal vSnap and VADP are removed in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus V10.1.7. When you upgrade from a previous version, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is upgraded but the internal vSnap is not upgraded and remains at the previous version level. If the internal vSnap was used, a warning is displayed on the Disks screen and it requires that the data is migrated to a stand-alone vSnap server. For more information, see Migrating data to a stand-alone vSnap server.
    Ports 111, 2049, 3260, and 20048 on IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are no longer used due to the removal of the internal vSnap and VADP and are closed.
  • Manage the password for the superuser account
    You can change the password for superuser account at any time. The superuser is the user who is assigned the SUPERUSER role.
  • Support for the following releases is added:

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus software supported
    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for Oracle support for AIX® 7.2.
    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for MongoDB support for SLES 15 and RHEL/CentOS 8 on Linux®® x86_64 and RHEL/CentOS 8 on Linux Power®
    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for Microsoft 365 CentOS 8
    vSnap server physical installation on RHEL 7.8

APAR's & Security Bulletins
There are a large number of defects that have been resolved in version 10.1.7, along with several security bulletins. For a complete list of APARs fixed in this level refer to this link. The list of Security Bulletins is below. For additional information regarding these bulletins, click on each one for complete details:

Security Bulletins

    To download this version of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, you will need to visit Fix Central. 

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