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Flashcopy Manager

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Support for Linux on IBM z Systems

Support for Linux on IBM z Systems is needed for DB2 ACS invoking IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot - formerly IBMTivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

FCM: User Interface

- Unified GUI for Unix/Linux/VMware/Windows- Show where (FCM, and/or TSM) the backups are and which backp-version of which application exist- Same look and feel like the TPC 5.1 WebGUI- WebGUI- Central interface for all FCM flavours- Optional Inte...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager & GLVM

In some installed server P systems we manage as outsourcer we need to copy storage data between two different datacenters (source in Italy, target in France; different storage type).The only way to manage copy is GLVMSome of the source systems hav...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

FCM: ZFS Support for Solaris

THE main volume manager for clustered systems is zfs. Without this support FCM for Solaris only can be used in a very small amounts of Solaris systems.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

FCM: Support for Lotus Domino

Currently FlashCopy Manager supports the following applications: SAP, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, MS Exchange. Non of the current platforms where the FlashCopy Manager is being shipped delivers a support for Lotus Domino. Also, it might be considered tha...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Flash Copy Manager support for Solaris 11

Flash Copy Manager is supported for Solaris 10.x, but not for Solaris 11.x
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Flashcopy Manager support for DS8K Space Efficient Flashcopy

Client is in a Banking industry and a large customer of TSM and DS8K deployed site.( with several hundred TBs )The bank wishes to consider using FCM with Oracle / DB on AIX / Solaris Platform with DS8K SE Flashcopy Currently, FCM does not support ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Application Aware VMWare Flash Copy Manager

Flash copy manager needs to be application aware for database engines running on Windows in a VMWare environment. In order of importance Microsoft SQL Server, IBM UDB/LUW, Oracle, My SQL. The current ability of flash copy manager requires the data...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Utilize FlashCopy Manager to do ad-hoc clones from the backup target volumes to eliminate impact on production systems

Customers are asking for the ability to clone their database applications (Oracle, ERP, etc..) and not impact the production system on an ad-hoc basis. They want to be able to 'clone on demand' during the day and the existing process causes a shor...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM support for PowerLinux.

Currently Flashcopy Manager is only support on Linux x86_64 platforms.We would like to see support for PowerLinux setups.
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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