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TSM for VE: Virtualized Application Support

Currently the vStorage API for Data Protection creates VMware snapshots before TSM moves the data to TSM Pools. These VMware snapshots are able to create a filesystem data consistency or an application consistency if the application is VSS aware. ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Combine snappdiff and SM2T as complete backup solution

At the moment there is no fast way with TSM to restore single files / directories and also complete volumes on Netapp filers with cDot. With Snapmirror to tape (SMTT) we can restore a complete volume quickly, but there is no possibility to restore...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Backup VM process uses too much memory

The IFINCR backup VM job uses too much memory when processing guests especially in the initial phase when querying for previous backups images stored on the Spectrum Protect server.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

send encrypted backups through tdpve iffull/ifincr method

send tdpve client backups with method iffull and ifincr encrypted to server as it was with methods full and incr before
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

TSM operations center option to set or disable 'at risk' for RC4 and RC8

Tivoli Storage manager operations center shows clients as 'at risk' when backups are completed with RC8. We would like to see an option in which you can specify when a client is at risk:- backup must be completed with no messages- backup may be co...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Scheduler should skulk "In Progress" events and vcenter jobs

If DSMC aborts after completing a filespace or VM backup, but before sending the backup summary, then the events table will forever show "In Progress". Further, for VM backups, vcenter will perpetually show the backup as running. When a scheduler ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Support for Windows Client nodes in AFM Cache Cluster

Require support for Spectrum Scale Windows client nodes with AFM Cache clusters.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Enhancements to TS7700 VESHSTATS statistics

Enhancements in next VEHSTATS reports:H21ADPSU Add information about how many FICON channels are working and the nominal transfer speed (4GB, 8GB, ...) on every cluster.H33GRID Add information about how many gridlinks are working and the nominal t...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Do whole-file allocation for FILE scratch volumes too

According to the TSM Performance documentation at:http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.perf.doc%2Fr_ptg_sysfragfile.htmlthe TSM server utilizes OS functions to allocate space for volumes when preallocating...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

New combination in SSIC for storage 2145-DH8

We require new Host and storage combination to be tested as the same combination is not reflecting in SSIC.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration