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Cluster-in-a-box official support by TSM for Virtual Environment

Customer BNPP/BPI2 needs to backup VM in a VMware environment with TSM for VE that use "Cluster-in-a-box" configuration. This configuration is a cluster within a VM configuration (like MSCS clusters) sharing a common Virtual Volume (not a RDM, not...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

eeasy setup external backup with fastback for desktop

posibility to change password to the external backup node on the tsm server and posibility to type in a nodename and not as by default the desktop machine name.easy setup guide to register the desktop backup to external backup server without havin...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enable preferred path detection after volume is moved to a new IO group or partner node

Can you enable the automatic detection of the related preferred paths in case a volume is moved to a new SVC IO group or in case the preferred node is changed to the partner node within the same IO-group ? Can this issue be resolved by cooperation...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Enable preferred path detection after volume is moved to a new IO group or partner node

Can you enable the automatic detection of the related preferred paths in case a volume is moved to a new SVC IO group or in case the preferred node is changed to the partner node within the same IO-group ? Can this issue be resolved by cooperation...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Expand RR mlti-path beyond IBM oprganic arrays to include 3par

Recent guidance from 3par support is that all hosts attached to 3par should use RR MP. It's believe SVC MP to 3par is more MRU based. SVC uses RR for organic IBM storage such as DS88 and would request similar function for 3par
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Admin client batch option

A new command line option that signals this is a "batch" execution, not interactive. Specifically, if in batch mode, an expired admin password should cause a program exit with an error indication, not a prompt for a new password.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

To have a progress of a scheduled job when scheduled through the Vmware Plugin.

I would like to be able to view the progress of each guest as it is getting backed up when the job is scheduled. If the job is selected to "run now" then it works. If I select schedule then there is no progress bar. Every other backup software doe...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

TSM Admin session timeout

There should be an effective method of automatically cancelling idle administrator CLI sessions to the TSM server. "setopt adminideltimeout" seems to set the time an idle session can remain active and the session is cancelled when that time expire...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Admin session timeout

There should be an effective method of automatically cancelling idle administrator CLI sessions to the TSM server. "setopt adminideltimeout" seems to set the time an idle session can remain active and the session is cancelled when that time expire...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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