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While starting a consistency group, a "CMMVC7102E" error does not disclose the names of problem secondary volume(s).

Normally starting a consistency group on a IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a fairly simple and straightforward process. However, occasionally you may run into an error condition where the consistency group is unable to start because of a confli...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Backup HyperV VMs more backup Types & Options

more backup types & options for hyperV VMs not only full backup and restore
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Support for the TSM 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12 ?

Support for the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12. Today, IBM supports only Ubuntu 10 and 11.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417165#6.3%20DI...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server should be able to display what clients are sending 'pre-deduplicated' data

either in operations center, or with a simple select statement, it should be possible to display if a client is actually sending deduplicated data to the Spectrum protect server.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Storwize V7000 support for T10 DIF / PI standard for open system operating systems

Storwize V7000 needs to support T10 DIF / PI standard to secure data integrity
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

ITM for TSM agent (SK) is un-usable in existing environment

ITM for Tivoli Storage Manager is only offered as an all-inclusive ITM installation (utilizing the much loathed DE no less..) This packaging is different than any other ITM agent offered by IBM that we have seen. It makes remotely deploying, maint...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Please provide functionality so that Storage Insights can show hostconnect logins by DS8 IO Port

From the host logins page in the DS8 GUI, and from the lshostconnect -login table we can easily see which hostconnects are logged into which DS8 IO port. In Storage Insights Pro, the GUI seems to specifically omit the IO Port columns in what is pr...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

TSM Banner for login

Ability to define a login banner for any CLI or GUI TSM Admin login e.g. Define the login banner on the TSM using an external txt file:Define loginbanner file=/full/path/to/file.txt
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Gemalto Key Manager Support for Encryption

Customer would like to implement encryption at rest using their preferred key manager - Gemalto. I had heard this was being tested. Could you please let me know when it will be supported.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC Support for Windows NTP Service

Currently SVC and V7000 is not compatible with NTP-service provided by windows-operatingsystem (windows server 2008 R2). Requested feature should support the NTP service of Windows. BTW, DS8000 and Brocade SAN switches supports this already.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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