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    FCM for VMware: Change FMM0654E to warning or information

    In FCM for VMware, a backup schedule fails with FMM0654E if a VM is not part of a datastore any more compared to a previous backups. This usually happens when a VM is being moved through vMotion. vMotion is a very frequent use case used in nearly ...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    FCM for VMware: For VM restore GUI should ask for Storage Resource Group

    If a VM is being restored to another location the GUI does not ask for a Storage Resource Group. This implies that it is impossible to restore the VM to any Storage Resource Group. Instead the VM is being restored outside an Storage Resource Group...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support

    FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support Customer thinks about integrating GPFS as VMware storage layer. Additionally, FlashCopy Manager for VMware should be used to backup / recover the environemnt. Today, GPFS is only supported for FCM for UN...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Flashcopy Offload Optimization of db2_all command

    Offload apparently waiting for several minutes.We saw issues during our offload testing with failing db2inidb commands when the log directories were not there. That is why we created the piece of code to create the log directories. Since for multi...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    STA path need to update after drive replacement

    As an example of TS3200 LTO6 drives which we have in our infra whenever we found any drive issue and after replacement of this drive we are getting new serial number and same we are updating on tsm server with below command upd dr libraryname driv...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Functionality already exists

    Additional memory settings for cloning target

    In many cases the target of a DB Cloning operation has less system resources than the cloning source. For those cases there is already the possibility to limit the database memory of the target in the FlashCopy Manager profile.But in some cases, t...
    almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot support multiple DB2 databases within a single instance

    FEPOC owns Flashcopy Manager for DB2 and has performed a Proof of Concept (POC) and identified changes required to the current DB2 environment in order to implement flashcopy. A problem was identified in the POC based on CCTI's unique architecture...
    over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Restrict FCM to manage the own source and target volumes (multi tenancy)

    Reference: Technical Exchange call with Mr. Uhl, Munz, Calvus 7/18/2013In a shared SAN-enviroment, security is very important for a service provider with multiple customers. We want to use FCM running on different operating systems in combination ...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    FCM: Support disk partitions on Linux

    The customer requires support for disk partitions on Linux. Statement 2.0.10 of the FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux prerequisites checklist explicitly excludes this support.
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    FCM VMware: Provide ability to specify multiple values of MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV

    We need to ability to customize MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV. We are limited to only one MAX_VERSIONS parm with XIV.
    about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

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