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RHV/oVirt support in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments currently supports VMware and Hyper-V. This is a request for support of RHV/oVirt, as well.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains, across one or more TSM servers, which would include client related sections such as backup success rate, activity over 24 hours, protected clients and nu...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli Fastback for windows 2012 and exchange 2013

System: Tivoli Fastback for exchangeActor: Deploy new version The client for Exchange in Exchange 2013 doesn't work.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect should have an oracle agent that replaces RMAN entirely, so proper object metadata can be handled internally, allow proper expeiration, retsets, etc.

Spectrum Protect has long been plagued by retention problems with Oracle backups. RMAN owns all of the metadata, and keeping this in sync requires sync tools, etc. In large environments, often the DBA team and the Backup team are separated. This l...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

SP4VE FLR - interaction with CyberArk API for

Today, security is in the center of backup and even more recovery procedure. My customer, big insurance is asking that SP4VE is more integrated with security components and external authentication mechanism.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Support Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 for Product Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family.

Need client support for updated Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 (v3.0.21.0) prior to official release in Nov 2017. Related to Current Crit AA1279 AND PMR 10768,082,000.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Allow swapping a DRAID member drive without triggering a RAID rebuild.

We would like to be able to do a drive swap of a DRAID member without triggering a RAID rebuild. The same current functionality of TRAID charraymember.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Reclaim process improvement

Every week, our team needs to export tape to an offline vault.Our use case involves having a large # of tapes that are not fully utilized.Thus, we like to consolidate these tapes into a few tape (as few as possible) before exporting them to offlin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Pre-occupy system resource for GPFS on nodes

Since GPFS is so critical, any standard way (from GPFS engineering or support) to configure GPFS on each node (mgmt., NSD, FPO and clients) to pre-occupy certain amount of memory and no other processes can use. I know that RHEL cgroup may be a goo...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Migration from CPS

Provide capability for customers to move from legacy CPS hardware to fusion
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration