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Intoducing datastore clusters in TSM4VE incl. status in initating restore process

Providing the datastore cluster name when recovering a vm in a vcenter environment. Implementing a dialog drill down to select datastore cluster or datastore with displaying available space. There should also be status symbol for enough or not eno...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Enhancing TSM4VE vCloud support to delete an existing vApp while restoring it

Enhancing the restore wizard to allow to specify an option to delete an existing vApp before restoring it and recreating while restoring it.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing TSM4VE vCloud support

Enhancing VCloud support to restore a single vm into an existing vApp in a vCloud environment.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Showing up vm size in the plugin/web gui interface while initiating restore wizard

Implementing the size information in the restore wizard vm source panel like in the backup/archive client gui.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add "browse" support for fields in the VM Restore Destination dialog box in the BA Client "Restore VM" function.

The current dialog box in the TSM BA cient for selecting the destination parameters when restoring a VM to an alternate location (Restore to "Following location") do not provide any lookup or "browse" capability, requiring the user to remember and...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

FCM's IBMVSS needs to be able to specify various grain size's to SVC during the flash copy

The Flash Copy manager application passes in a 64KB grain size to the SVC on Flash Copies by default. We are currently at SVC code 7*. This uses considerably more bit-map memory than the 256KB grain size than in previous SVC code levels. IBMVSS ( ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Virtual image restore without ISCSI windows system

Due to Performance and handling we would perfere to use a LINUX Proxy to restore single objects from Image backup. today a Windows Proxy and a Linux Proxy is required to restore a Linux file.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT SETS NON TSM FOR VE NODE PLATFORM TO "TDP VMWARE"

TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT SETS NON TSM FOR VE NODE PLATFORM TO "TDP VMWARE"
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

tsm server registered the tdp for ms sql as winnt-platform

tsm server registered the tdp for ms sql as winnt-platform
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

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