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FlashCopy Manager Support for Hyper-V

Deloitte Global is simply underwhelmed with IBM's software defined storage. Particularly with respect to the SVC (Spectrum Control), they find that we simply have not delivered enough integration with the Microsoft ecosystem over the past year. He...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

VM "self-defined" backup using VM custom attributes

Many large IT organization are performing VM backups in a multi-tenant environment. In those complex environments, the VM naming convention cannot always be fixed by the IT and thus, backup setup rules thru the VM name (wildmask filters, host sele...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM BA Client Support for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Latest TSM BA Client fails to install on Mac OS X 10.11. Support stops at 10.10.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Also Implement DAR on TSM Server CLI

Currently DAR is implemented on the TSM Web Client Interface only. Individual file restores done from the TSM Server CLI do not utilize DAR. This causes additional overhead during a restore process of the entire image being scanned and if large en...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

V9000 performance testing during Snapshot or incremental FlashCopy for Nifty

We hope either of the following item:Improvement V9000 FlashCopy functionReason for Too large performance impact when take V9000 Snapshot or incremental FlashCopyPerformance degradation over 90% when take Snapshot.Performance degradation over 60% ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FCM for vmware support XIV cross-consistency group

XIV support snapshot of multiple volumes spanning multple XIVs simultaneously which named hyper-scale Consistency group.FCM for VMware support consistency group within single XIV.But FCM for VMware does NOT support hyper-scale Consistency Group to...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

tivoli storage manager ba client for Linux on POWER Little Endian support

as of v 7.1.2 only the tsm API supports Linux on Power little endian. We are hoping to backup clients running this configuration
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Documentation fix for TSM for VMware and iSCSI Linux Restore

Enhance documentation regarding 5c in the documentation belowManually configuring an iSCSI device on a Linux systemhttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/#!/SS8TDQ_7.1.2/com.ibm.itsm.ve.inst.doc/t_ve_cfg_mountiscsi.html Customer are ONLY pr...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TiB conversion to TB in Spectrum Virtualize

Provide the ability to convert binary (TiB) capacity to decimal (TB) capacity in Spectrum Virtualize and any other product using the same software stack - IE V9000. It could be a setting in the GUI or a parameter in the CLI.
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Protect Agent Support for Db2 Warehouse/MPP on Scale

For a "role your own" Db2 MPP/Warehouse the Protect client agent is currently not supported or tested. This is available in the Netezza format (appliance). The solution proposal will need this capability. Need support for the client agent within a...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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