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Flashcopy Manager

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FCM: Central Management GUI

The customer which are using FCM require a central management GUI to manage all FCM environments. In addition, it would be a good idea to integrate the gui with TSM. Also it is interesting because FCM under UNIX platforms don't have any graphical ...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Manager Snapshot Support for Spectrum Virtualize in a Hyperswap Relationship

Currently FCM snapshot support is only established for Spectrum Virtualize within SVC in a stretched cluster setup. We need support for snapshots for the whole Flashsystem/SVC family within a Hyperswap relation, adressing IBM AIX, VMware, Linux an...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

FCM for VMware: Support for duplicate UUIDs

In Vmware environments it is a common procedure to clone a VM. After this is done, the new VM gets the same UUID as the VM where it was cloned from. A post process is necessary in order to give the cloned VM a new UUID. If this post process is not...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: GUI field "backup end time" should be optional

When a new backup schedule is created, the GUI forces the user to enter a backup end time. These fields should be optional because some clients want the schedule to run forever.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 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 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Centralized reporting for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

We would like to request a centralized reporting facility for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager, specifically FlashCopy Manager for Exchange 2010 first, if possible (although all applications managed by FCM would benefit). This reporting facility would be ...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Ability to create a cascade of clones that are independent from each other

If a database was cloned with FlashCopy Manager and this clone (D1) serves as source for another clone (D2) it is currently not possible to refresh D1 without deleting D2. For some scenarios this restriction has technical reasons. But by using ful...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

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...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

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 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 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 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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