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ISP4VE- Additional Tagging documentation for powershell

In the user´s guide there is no example or explanation how to set tags via powershell. It´s mentioned that for example the quiescing paramter can be set manual via powershell but not how...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Server Startup on Linux SystemD unit file

Would like a SystemD unit file for the SP server startup. Current process uses SystemV init script which runs from a user slice which inherently do not have access to all system resources. Running the application from a SystemD unit file would use...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM for VE GUI Improvements.

1.- Currently when we go to scheduler a backup/restore of VMs we need to expand the datacenter and then expand esx by esx in order to look for the VM. This doesn't like to the customers, especially when they have many ESXs. We need to see all VMs ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

TSM for VE - Add support for Multiple vCenter & TSM Servers

Add the functionality for configuring multiple vCenter and TSM Servers to on the same TSM for VE (VMware) GUI. This will allow customers to be able to manage multiple vCenter servers and also to manage backups to multiple TSM Servers.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Move data from tapes to container storage pools

There should be a way for people who want to abandon tapes to move their existing data to disk, in most recent format - container storage pools. As there is feature introduced with 7.1.6 to convert file based legacy storage pools to new container ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

SP+ Syslog alerting

Please add an ability to have events sent via syslog messages to external receivers. There should be an ability to include select informational events for login/logout security auditing as well as backup and restore events.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Multiple vcenter's configured in TSM Data Protection for VMWare

We use TSM VMWare Data protection for backing up our vms regularly. We are currently have to allocate additional servers in order to point to each vcenter. Enabling the software to be configured for multiple vcenters would be helpful.

Allow for parallel-stream restores, using DP for SAP HANA

In http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZHVN_7.1.3/erp.hana/c_dperp_saphana_planperf.html, the manual states that parallel-session BACKUP and RESTORE is possible in DP for SAP HANA 7.1.3. That is not the case, as discovered in named PMR. B...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Delivered

Allow more flexible retention polices

Currently the SLA Policies only allow retnetion period in days. The customer would like to set retention period in weeks, months, years or indefinitely.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered