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My votes: Storage Protect Family

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disable the disk signatures when doing the install of the data movers for TSM VE

When a customer installs TSM VE on a vStorage Backup Server for Windows using the SAN mode (i.e. data store LUNs zoned to vStorage Backup Server), the customer suggests that the install wizard tells the user that it will disable automatic disk sig...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Being able to use other IDs besides SYSTEM ID for HANA Backup Setup

IBM Support/SME confirmed that user ID that is used for the setup.sh needs to be SYSTEM ID as per the documentation provided.This RFE is for our developers to allow other users IDs with the required privileges to be able to run the setup.sh for SA...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

multi-vmdk restore in parallel

multi-vmdk restore in parallel
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM LAN-Free backup to Disk devices support

Need TSM support LAN-Free functions to backup data to disk devices.Formerly, TSM using SANergy to achive this , but now SANergy is end of market. We need a feasible solution for the Lan-Free functions to disk support
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Tivoli TDP for ERP for Oracle: Support for RHEL 6

TDP for ERP (Oracle) should be enhanced to support installations running on RHEL 6.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 7 Delivered

Direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server

It would be helpful if a TSM server could direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server, either temporarily or permanently. Currently we have to change a TSM configuration file on a client server (dsm.opt) to change its default or find how ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM4VE vCenterPlugin: Possibility to attach/restore volumes

Currently the TSM4VE vCenter Plugin only allows to restore a whole VM. To restore single volumes of a VM or to mount a volume in order to restore single files, a separate GUI (TSM4VE Recovery Agent) must be started. It is required to have this fun...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Tivoli TSM clustering

There should be an functionality to configure existing TSM instance into windows 2008 r2 cluster.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

TSM DB backups via HW snapshot

Enable backups of TSM's own internal DB by using hardware's snapshot ability in a way that updates archive logs appropriately, just as if a "real" DB backup was done.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

VMware Backup Support for Vapps using Vstorage API & Exclude Raw Device Mapping Disk

The DSMC client using the "Backup VM" command fails to see and backup any virtual machines on a ESXi v4.1 server. This is somewhat critical for a Enterprise environment where we use Vapps to manage our servers! The Vstorage API shrinks the backup ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

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