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Restore single vm from vapp

Select a single vm from a vapp that should be restored. Either as a new vapp, or import to an existing. Must be available from the web gui.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

SVC Reverse FlashCopy, Copy Rate%

I have been talking to Bill Wiegand about this change i would like to have changed int eh SVC. When you create a reverse Flashcopy the default if to set the copy rate to 0. When i have a Flashcopy as a SNAP and the default rate of a reverse is 0 n...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Backup status report scope

There is a pulldown on the Backup Status report in the vCenter plug-in that allows the user to select a Datacenter for the scope of the report.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

Select vm backup based on resource pool, i.e., use resource pools as vm selection with the include.vmfull domain (similar to hosts, hostclusters, etc.). .
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Request to develop VSC ability to blacklist SVC ports when automatic zoning. Prevent usage of SVC internode ports.

VSC is not able to restrict zoning for SVC ports dedicated for internode communication.The reason of this request is to ask IBM to develop some blacklist option for VSC automatic zoning in order to block the use of some selected SVC ports.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

OC STG Settings flexibilisation

In a large Installations monitored by Operational Center are settings for Storage Pools too inflexible.The thresholds could be set only for all Spoke Servers and all Storage Pools. Especially by using of Storage Pool from type FILE with predefined...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Request for improvement of AIX multipath driver (SDDPCM)

The SDDPCM is coded for multiple storage paths connected to a single host adapter. For consistent workload, we require a single adapter be mapped to a single storage port. The SDDpcm does not see this as a balanced implementation, and teh select c...
over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Restore Volume Mapping Feature to Volumes Section

Recently we upgraded our SVC clusters from V7.4.0.3 to v7.6.1.1. In the v7.4 release, it was possible to map a volume at the time of creation to many hosts, while specifying the LUN ID. It was also possible to edit a volume's LUN ID after creation...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

enable/disable use of CBT on VM machine level

Due to the fact that there are multiple issues with VMware CBT function I recommend giving the TSM admin the choice of selecting "use CBT yes/no" independent of the chosen backup method on a "per VM" level, e.g. as a "VMNOCBTUSAGE=VM1; VM2; VM3"
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to node group

When adding a client node using the beautiful TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a disk only based solution with node replication where r...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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