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Certify the SAS HBA "Adaptec Smart Storage PQI SAS / HP Smart Array P408e-p SR Gen10" for LTFS

Our environment: Server Model: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen10 OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 (Oopta) LTFS Version: ltfssde-2.4.5.1-10503.x86_64 Tape Library Model: IBM TS4300 Product ID: 3575-TL Firmware Version: 1.6.0.0-A00 SAS HBA Model: Adaptec Smar...
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 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

Gui Enhancements - additional reporting fields

5. Would like the GUI to include the following enhancements: a. Host Tab - Need the ability to quickly identify per host the number of io groups in use, which io groups are in use, and the volume counts for that host in each io group with option t...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC - Ability to downgrade Code level or Revert to previous code level

During the upgrade process at the end there is a final step to commit to system. Would like an enhanced feature that allows for the previously installed code level to be maintained and provide an option to role the code back should issues be encou...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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

Get actual data size of data stored using API

TSM should provide the actual size of the data object stored using the TSM API. Possible solutions:A) update the size value after the transfer completes with the actual size (preferred).B) introduce a second size value (one: allocated, other: actu...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 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

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

Better handling of events when schedules overlap

When a node is busy with a long-running schedule, several schedules for the same node might be missed - for example when having hourly incremental backups, and a full backup is running.It would be desirable, if the TSM server could "bypass" these ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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

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