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Using VMware vSphere Tags for selection of VMs to back up

We need better tools to select which VMs to be included in or excluded from a backup. The RFE ID 62515 is another indication of this. I suggest to implement into the TSM client the ability to select VMs to include/exclude based on VMware vSphere T...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Direct NFS access to VMWare Datastores

The need is to be able to read data to backup from NFS storage, directly from physical or logical proxy proxy when ESX storage is provided by NFS share (not SAN attached).
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced SVC GUI Performance Monitoring

From customer :CPU It would be nice to see breakdown across iogroups and nodes to show any imbalances Vdisk metricsHere it would be nice to be able to drill down to a vdisk levelThe ability to break down vdisk metrics to host level. Mdisk metricsT...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Streamline total indexed objects count

Since the introduction of the Spectrum Protect feature, Spectrum Discover does no longer report the total number of indexed objects. We see the total number of objects that are non-Spectrum Protect specific in the respective tab and we see the tot...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

TSM ADMIN CLI Timeout

Idle timeouts do not operate when using the TSM ADMIN CLI.This is violation of security standards and requires an immediate fix or workaround...ADMINIDLETIMEOUT doesnt seem to work for idle admin sessions...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

RestAPIv2

Would like to use restAPI v2 to associate snapshot rules ( like other snapshot options : list, create, delete ,copy ... on filesystem and on fileset level ) , but no rule association rest api calls ?
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Option to exclude VM folder in DOMAIN.VMFULL

DOMAIN.VMFULL all-vm;-vmfolder=DR-Machines,*TEST* -vmfolder will work in the same way as "-vm" excluding certain folders or folders containing som word
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

provide enhanced alternative to file-list with Spectrum Protect B/A Client

Currently, the filelist parameter requires a flat file to be provided. This is a poor performing data structure, and IBM development has pointed out that performance could be increased by being able to provide an alternative data structure, such a...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on AIX server

The initial implementation of Aspera with TSM will be on xLinux. Very few of our customers run TSM on xLinux. Most run TSM server on Windows and AIX, with larger installations on AIX. Aspera needs to be integrated with TSM on AIX server to support...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support for mmrquotad to forward quota information from a remote AFM filesystem

When using a solution based on AFM to share a GPFS cluster among different sites, the AFM caches are the ones exposed (e.g. mounted by NFS) to servers on the local sites. The available version of mmrquotad daemon (which dates from 2010) is able to...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration