Applying global preferences
As the administrator, you can manage preferences that apply to all IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operations in the Global Preferences pane.
Before you begin
Only the user with administrator credentials can manage global preferences.
Restriction: The deduplication table (DDT) options are available only if you install
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus interim fix 10.1.4.222 or later.
About this task
The Global Preferences pane contains default values for parameters that apply to all IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operations. The preferences are organized into three categories: application, protection, and security.
The default values for the global preferences are shown in the following table.
Preference | Default value | Unit (if applicable) |
---|---|---|
Concurrent Application Servers for Backup session | 0 | |
vSnap Free Warn Percentage (%) | 30 | Percentage (%) |
vSnap Free Error Percentage (%) | 20 | Percentage (%) |
vSnap auto disable deduplication when dedup table (DDT) size exceeds resource limits | Checked | |
vSnap DDT size limit in GB | 50 | Gigabytes |
vSnap DDT size limit as percentage of total memory cache | 80 | Percentage (%) |
Group VMs by VM Group size (GB) | 5120 | Gigabytes |
Group VMs by Number of VMs in group | 20 | |
VMware Connectin Timeout | 300 | Seconds |
Backup Update Interval | 300 | Seconds |
Password Minimum Length | 8 | Characters |
You can change the default values in the Global Preferences pane.