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Bypass VSS_E_MAXIMUM_NUMBERS_OF_VOLUMES_REACHED limitation on

We need a new feature to bypass the VSS Limit of 64 Volumes during the Backups.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

TSM should support NDMP backup with VTL libtype

TSM Server should support NDMP backups with libtype VTL. It's documented that generally backups are faster when using a VTL and libtype is set to VTL instead of SCSI. Due to the limitation of TSM libtype VTL cannot be used as NDMP backups are not ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Extend TSM4VE to allow for "incremental forever" VMWare backups

Need to be able to do VMWare incremental image backups without doing periodic full backups.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

"VM-GROUPs" for VMs

Possibility to build a Group for VMs like Nodegroups for easier handling with the backup vm schedule
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Support standards for browser interoperability

As per requirements listed at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21515628 TSM Admin Center requires an obsolete, broken, unsupported brain dead version of Firefox. According to the requirements, version 3.5 is required for full funct...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

FCM Win: Links to the VSS HW Provider Websites are out of date

The configuration wizard in the MMC prints a warning if no VSS Hardware Provider is installed. If you click on this Warning, then a list with links to websites appear where it is possible to download the VSS HW Provider. The problem: The links in ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

Backup client for SAP HANA

There is a need to develop a real backup solution for SAP HANA. As it is today all backups are done on a full-backup base from files. Since the database can be quite large this is a problem.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Oracle Database Cloning improvements in FCM

Two enhancements are requested. 1) Currently FCM requires environment variable ORACLE_HOME to be set in the users environment right after logon. We request that FCM should read this value from /etc/oratab so that we can have a single user for mult...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Planned for future release

SPS Support for A9000 Multisite Configuration

Client is using a multi-site configuration in their A9000's where they are hyperswapped in prod and async replicating to DR. They need support for this configuration within Spectrum Protect Snapshot for snapshot management.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

TSM/VE support for vsphere 5.5

What is the road map for TSM for VE to support vsphere 5.5? Currently the latest version of VE 6.4.1 supports up to 5.1
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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