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Ability to specify different retention policies for different drives

Ability for TSM for VE to specify different retention policies for different drives in a single VM.Same request as ID# 41739
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM Server Import Node from Media requires option to start from tape sequence # other than 1.

System: TSM ServerActor: Bendigo Bank TSM Media Exports have been actively used to migrate from our TSM 5.5 environment running on Windows 2003 to TSM 6.4.x running on AIX 7.1 Description:I have a very long media import to a TSM v6.3.4.100 server ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

V7000 controller upgrade utility

With the announcement of the new V7000 nodes there is no easy way to upgrade to a new controller. I have a customer that has had to turn of compression because they were exceeding the performance of the 1 CPU assigned for system usage. And there i...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TFCM support for Solaris under cluster mode

In 2011, we sold Tivoli Flash Copy Manager(TFCM) as part of the SVC stretched cluster solution at PACI Kuwait. The project finally got implemented in the end of March 2014 except for the TFCM part. Host environment of the project involves three no...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Exclusions by VM hardware version

The ability to exclude VMs based on hardware type.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

AIX JOURNAL-BASED BACKUP CAUSES "MISC KERNEL HEAP" MEMORY CONSUMPTION (APAR IC97751)

The "filepath" kernel extension used to monitor file system change activities allocates kernel heap memory for each file accessed on the system and keeps that memory until the system is rebooted. On systems with many files this memory consumption ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

AFM support for immutable and appendOnly mode in GPFS

The customer requests a design change because there is a valid use case where they require setting files to immutable or appendonnly on the IW cache (to prevent tampering of human genome information stored in such files) which means that the files...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Integration between Clusters Oracle and Microsoft and IBM SVC Replication

We have defined a transformation project in Strategic Outsourcing for migration of Petabytes of SAN Disk from OEM disk boxes to SVC (Tiered backend). Customer has implemented several Oracle Solaris 10 Clusters with Hitachi Replication. These clust...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC/V7000 GUI call home paging

The SVC/v7000 GUI when a drive fails, the unit calls home and pages as it should. However, the drive most of the time cannot be replaced immediately for several reasons such as waiting on parts, rebuilds, or better time of day. What happens is tha...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enhance exclude/include Single Disks processing during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of virtual machines specified using wild cards.Currently exclude/include.vmdisk statements containing wild cards a...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

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