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Flashcopy Manager

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FCM to support Veritas Filesystems

Main requirement is the support of Veritas file-systems, and although there is a solution, it will add an extra level of complexity that is undesired. TSM Dev are aware and Chris Zaremba is involved.
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 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

IBM FlashCopy Manager support for Solaris 10 x86

Currently FlashCopy manager is only supported on Solaris 10 (Sparc) and not Solaris 10 x86. There are many environments out there that run Oracle databases on Solaris 10 x86 for cost savings reasons (cheaper then buying Sparc hardware) and with Fl...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 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: Simplify complexity of mounting

To mount a FlashCopy is more complex than expected, because it is not clear under which conditions which arguments must be used in order to mount a FlashCopy. Normally, FCM mounts the latest FlashCopy Backup to the Backup System with this command:...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 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.
over 12 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 ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Provide Volume Label Information when querying list of available components to backup for File System And Custom App Support.

FCM 3.2 Beta Customer would like the ability to view the Volume/ Mount Point label along with the drive/mount point name when querying the list of available components to backup for the Flash Copy Manager For Windows File System and Custom Applica...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM Windows - Allow option to skip import/mask if integrity check is not needed

With FlashCopy Manager for Windows, when "just in time" imports are used, offer the option not to import the snapshot to the production machine, unless necessary. For example, if we are not doing an Exchange integrity check and we are not running ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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