IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Better management of VMs which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

Better management of VMs which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention - TSM should not backup files which were just restored (most recent version) by TSM, on next incremental.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Space management - reconciliation preview

The reconciliation command (dsmhsmclc) in TSM for Space Management (Windows) has an option (reconcilemode=emulation) to preview the results of running reconciliation on a filesystem without actually deleting any objects from the TSM server. The eq...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Support TSM Sysback for VIO Servers

Currently the only way to take a backup of a VIO server is by using the backupios command. We use Sysback (Tivoli Storage Manager for Sysback Backup and Recovery) for all of our AIX hosts. We would like to use the same product for our VIO servers....
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client Auto-Deploy feature enable in TSM Enterprise Configuration Environment

We are trying to do auto-deploy of TSM clients from v5.5 - 6.2 onwards to v7.1.1.1 for windows and unix through Tivoli Integrated portal but we are getting ANR3200E error. The TSM server run on Linux OS at 6.3.4.00 version. This is a limitation of...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 7 Not under consideration

TSM need to provide way to increase number of migraton process per node

Refer documentations http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21633725 Per node any given time only one migration process possible. When using TSM for Email Archive application per day effectively we can archive around 150GB of EMAIL. When...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

CBT Issue in vSphere - VE needs to leverage vSphere API to more efficiently mitigate this issue

Read this: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2090639 When you read it, look at this statement: Note: It is not required to power off the virtual machine to change the CBT configur...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Need more than 16 WWPN Support Per WWPN

The customer needs to place an Emc VMax3 behind the SVC. The VMax has 128 WWPN and SVC only supports 16..Customer: "One of my concerns with SVC in front of VMAX storage is the limited number of paths that are supported (16). THIS IS NOT A BANDWIDT...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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