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Snapshot compatibility with FS7200 / NVMe Disk

We were checking this document and realize that FS7200 is not in the list, this config is made based on FCM / NVme disk.This is an environment which includes Power server and FS7200 like a said before and the needs for the Spectrum Protect Snaphot...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Offload restore

There us already a function for offload backup. This works great. I would very much like a offload restore (not lanfree). Data would flow from tsm server to a offload host on dedicated luns. Once complete, the luns would be dismounted from the off...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Delivered

Cloning support for custom applications

Add support for cloning of custom application filesystems to support creating and refreshing development and test environments.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered

"DATABASE_MEMORY like" option in profile CLONING section

It should be possible to clone SAP/DB2 environment to another environment without requiring the same amount of memory just because of the check/recovery phase of the cloning process.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Tivoli FCM for VMware

using FCM 3.2.0 We are an SAP shop which on a frequent basis refreshes PRD to QAS environments. We wanted to use FCM to perform this landscape "refresh" . One of the requirements though is to preserve the "TARGET" environment (unmount FS and renam...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Request that FCM functionality be enhanced to support nested mount points that are stored on more than one volume group.

We request that FCM functionality be enhanced to support nested mount points that are stored on more than one volume group. There is no indication in the FCM error message to indicate why this functionality is not in FCM. The error message simply ...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

FCM support for Oracle DataGuard

The customer would like to use FCM with Oracle DataGuard to take point in time copies of Oracle DataGuard (source or target volumes).
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Delivered

FCM: Clone Oracle DB on ASM.

Many Oracle installations are running over ASM. The possibility to do a clone of this databases is necessary.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Extended Scheduler capabilities

Not possible to create advanced schedules.My customer has made schedules which make backups every two hours. But they would like the possibility to exclude certain weekdays like saturdays and sundays.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Possibility to protect multible volumes in one schedule.

Possibility to protect multible volumes in one schedule.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered