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IBM Spectrum Protect for VE-Remove 8 TB VMDK snapshot backup Restriction or Extend snapshot backup of VMDK from 8TB to 64 TB

We would like to have IBM enhance IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments product and remove this restriction/limitation to fail the snapshot backup of VMDK which is grater then 8 TB in size. We would like to have IBM remove this limitation/...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environment Linux file level restore improvement

Almost all customers and partners complains about the complexity and the difficulty to perform Linux file level recovery with TSM for Virtual Environment. They need a simplified recovery procedure (with or without i-SCSI) to access to a volume for...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Planned for future release

enhance DELETE policies

When writing a cleanup policy using as DELETE rule it can happen that a file cannot deleted for some reason (e.g. user has deleted it in the meantime or file is still in use). For a certain type of cleanup procedures this is tolerable and you do n...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Enhance policy handling to allow ordering of rules

I want to delete dirs and files in a subtree depending on their mtime. Using a policy file I can identify the files and dirs and order them by DIRECTORY_HASH to ensure the correct deletion order from deepest to highest paths. This works falwlessly...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Issue taking VM snapshot using TDP for VMWare for vmdk size greater than 2TB

Hello Team, We have an environment where we have TSM server(6.3.4) based on AIX 6.1 OS. We have a proxy server which is based on Windows 2008 R2 Standard. We have installed TSM for BA Client 7.1 and TDP for Virtual Environments 7.1 on the Proxy se...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Manually running cloud offload per VM

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run VM backups manually by selecting the VM and clicking the "run" button.When we want run replication or offload we need to run the schedule.We should be able run run replication or offload jobs per VM manually ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SnapDiff to tape

Add feature to make incremental/differential backups of Netapp volumes to tapes base on changed blocks. A New Backup Architecture for NAS Systems - SnapDiff V3 (netapp.com)
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Flashcopy snapshot on stretched cluster volume should have same preffered node as the source volume

When creating a snapshot, flashcopy volumes are assigned on a round robin method. When in a stretched cluster scenario, when you create a snapshot, you want to keep the snapshot at the same site as the source volume to prevent unwanted I/O on the ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

parallel threads of volume / vdisk migation in SVC GUI

It is not possible to change the amount of threads for vdisk / volume migrations between mdiskgroups / pools inside the SVC GUI version 6.x
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Sortable & Searchable columns in running jobs progress & job logs

Requesting sort and search functions be added to the Spectrum Protect Plus UI. Specifically in the Jobs and Operations section, while viewing a job log and progress fields.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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