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Flashcopy Manager

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FCM vCenterPlugin: Possibility to disable a job

Currently in the vCenter Plugin it is not possible to disable a schedule. The only possibility to "disable" a schedule is to delete the schedule or to set it to a time very very far in future.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Email alerting

Alert when job fails as a supplement to reports.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

FCM: Possibility to create FULL FC on XIV

If FlashCopy Manager is used in conjunction with XIV, then FlashCopy Manager only is able to create Space Efficient Snapshots. Unfortunately also, if FlashCopy Manager creates Clone Systems. Especially for Clones or System Copies it is important t...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

fcmcli to display date/time of backup

1. FCM for custom apps to display the date/time the flash backup was taken when using fcmcli. 2. Allow TSM offloaded backups to run under root so all files are backed up (as the app ID doesnt always have ability to backup all files) and to do incr...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Option to influence VG naming for cloning

If FCM creates a clone system, then on the clone system gets default namings for Volume Group Names, Volume Group IDs and Logical Volumes Names. Usually companies have naming convention for these three values. Therefore an option (even if it incre...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Option to only delete clone mappings

FlashCopy Manager creates a system copy by performing a FlashCopy in the Storage System. This implies that the Storage System (like SVC) creates a copy relation between a source and target LUN. Some customers require to remove this copy relation t...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Oracle: create spfile from pfile after cloning

FlashCopy Manager is able to create clone databases for Oracle and DB2 databases. For Oracle databases it would be more efficient to have an option to create the spfile from pfile after the database is cloned.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM Win: Support for Oracle Database

Currently FlashCopy Manager support MSSQL Server and MS Exchange on Windows, but no Oracle Databases. Also: Support for SAP BR'Tools must be considered if Oracle is used in conjunction with SAP.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

FCM: Support for SE target sets on DS8K Series

Currently for IBM DS8k Storage Systems the supported Copy Functions are FULL and INCR. The DS8k Series also provides SE (Space Efficient) target sets which currently is not supported by FlashCopy Manager.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot support for VMAX

Spectrum Protect Snapshot supports VMAX with Dell EMC Solution Enabler 8.1. Current version is 9.2. Could you update the Rocket Device Adapter Packs in order to support the new versions of Solution Enabler ? Thanks.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

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