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TSM for VE: Eliminate ANS1711W warning message or change to informational.

Whenever the default backup mode is selected for a VMware VM backup (incremental forever, incremental) and a full backup has not been performed, a warning message is issued "ANS1711W Incremental backup selected for 'MLTUSAPV27', but a Full backup ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Replication of Larger file systmes from COS

Hi Mitul, I have the answer now for the difference between client restore from cloud vs replication from cloud 1: the normal restore from the cloud was making use of the chunk cache and async read. Those tools can in some cases make the restore fr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

why exclude.dir not favor archive?

why exclude.dir not favor archive?and there is no other option for exclude dir for archive backup.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

need to backup ndmp type=snapmirror to container storage pool

Almost all (avout 95%) the netapp backup in Ben -Gurion unuversity, based on ndmp backup with type=snapm.This is very large volume's, includ the volumes of exchange database's.We do backup to evry volume once a month, all the month we have daily s...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

VE file level restore lacks of indexing

Unable to quickly find deleted files without mounting all potential snapshots
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Customization of Client Auto-deployment Schedule

We would like to modify the auto deploy schedule in order to make it successful in our environment.In our infra, we do have multiple nodes configured for same host, hence multiple CAD services are running.After version 8.1.11, we are unable to sta...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Client Deployment Request

I understand it is a requirement of automatic client deployment that clients contact the server on the address as configured by the SERVERHLADDRESS. In our environment, the SERVERHLADDRESS set on the TSM Server cannot be contacted by the client be...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 6 Not under consideration

Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Node replication at lower priority

Ability to have 'repl node' command run at a lower, or user definable, priority.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release