Operations Center updates

New features are available in IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center Version 8.1.7.

The following new features are available:

A new way to comply with long-term data retention requirements. You can now meet common requirements for the collection, retention, and eventual deletion of data by creating collections of client backup data. These collections, which are called retention sets, are snapshots of the active backup data for one or more clients. You can define retention rules, which are schedules for collecting backup data for specified clients into retention sets. You can also create retention sets on an ad hoc basis. Data is not re-ingested from the client or copied from server storage to create a retention set. Instead, retention sets consist of data that is already in server storage. The data objects that must be retained are tracked in the server inventory and are not deleted until the specified retention period ends.
A new client type, called an object client, for offloading data from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. An object client is an application, in this case IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, that accesses the server by making Simple Storage Service (S3) requests to store and retrieve objects. By defining an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server as an object client, you enable IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to offload virtual machine copies directly to an IBM Spectrum Protect server.

For more information about these enhancements, see the Operations Center help.