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Flashcopy Manager

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Rocket Adapter for XtremIO

COTY is looking to use FCM for ERP on XtremIO. They need a rocket adapter built.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager Support for Hyper-V

Deloitte Global is simply underwhelmed with IBM's software defined storage. Particularly with respect to the SVC (Spectrum Control), they find that we simply have not delivered enough integration with the Microsoft ecosystem over the past year. He...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

FCM for vmware support XIV cross-consistency group

XIV support snapshot of multiple volumes spanning multple XIVs simultaneously which named hyper-scale Consistency group.FCM for VMware support consistency group within single XIV.But FCM for VMware does NOT support hyper-scale Consistency Group to...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

FCM for vmware support Hyper-scale mobility with XIV

Hyper-sacle mobility function of XIV is the important function in the very large vmware environment as used many multiple XIVs.Flashcopy Manager for VMware is strong solution in case of large vmware environment, but FCM does not support Hyper-scal...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Tivoli FlashCopy Manager should support db2 backup of SMS tablespace

I have an AVP custome who wish to use Tivoli FlashCopy Manager with their db2 database to improve database backup / restore performance. Most data in the database are in SMS tablespace. Tivoli FlashCopy Manager doesn't support SMS tablespace as do...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

FCM and Global Mirror with Chage Volumes

I would like to have an integration between the FlashCopy Manager and Remote Mirroring (Global Mirror with Change Volumes).
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Declaration of "SID $HOME" as an option and not a requirement in the FCM4Unix installer

Wish:The Flashcopy Manager for Unix (FCM4Unix) installer should provide the activation for the first DB2/Oracle/SAP-Oracle instance as an option and not as a requirement.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 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

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: 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