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Flashcopy Manager

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API for FlashCopy Manager

At the moment, the only way to interact with FCM is by using the command line, and parse output in case we need to automate any operations - which is pretty much unusable in terms of automation. We need an API for the FlashCopy Manager! The API sh...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Record BackupID/CloneID in the log/trace filenames

At the moment, it is pretty much impossible to make a unambiguous connection between a certain operation (backup or clone) and it's logs/trace files, let alone automate this process (backup failed -> send me the afferent log files via email). W...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM Oracle: Possibility to let RMAN control FCM Backups (and to see them in OEM)

Today with FCM 4.1, FCM's disk only backups cannot be seen in RMAN (Oracles Standard Backup Interface).This RFE is to implement a new interface in order to see FCM Backups in RMAN and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Manager with AIX LVM and SVC Stretched Cluster Support

HI, today ther is FCM and AIX LVM Support for mirrored volumes if there are two disk subsystems. The problem with SVC stretched cluster design (two locations) is that there is only one subsystem and i can`t configure the toleration and deletion of...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 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

FlashSystems Remote Support Capability (SYS5036)

A simple, fast, reliable way to connect to the Flashsystem for providing remote support
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FlashSystem Capacity Growth Non-Disruptive

FlashSystem storage model 840: With 25% average storage growth in our SO clients environments, the need to add storage over the term of a contract is constant. Appears that storage cannot be easily added to a FlashSystem storage model 840. Would s...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TFCM support for Solaris under cluster mode

In 2011, we sold Tivoli Flash Copy Manager(TFCM) as part of the SVC stretched cluster solution at PACI Kuwait. The project finally got implemented in the end of March 2014 except for the TFCM part. Host environment of the project involves three no...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage FCM integration with Veeam B&R

Veeam has got a strong integration with HP storage (3PAR and LeftHand) as in this doc http://www.ea-data.com/HP_StoreOnce.pdf and on VB&R release notes: http://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_7_0_release_notes_rn.pdf Probably this integration is on...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM For VMware Ver 3.2.0.2 - Improvement to Backup Status Report

FCM reports a false status for virtual machines when checked by generating a backup status report using the Reports > Backup Status Option with FCM GUI. With FCM for VMware 3.2.0.2 onwards FCM functionality has been improved to continue the bac...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration