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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

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

Hyper-V Cloud Backup

Here is my requirement for hyper-v cloud backup and restore. FYI: Net Backup have all these features. 1)      Simultaneous Guest backups on Cluster Shared Volume.2)      Follows a Guest around the ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

TS4500 mini PC placement

I had the opportunity to watch the SSRs working on Call Home problem with the TS4500. I would like to suggest an engineering change on the IMC min PC physical placement for consideration. The IMC mini PC is placed at the bottom corner of the end f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

Optimized backup support for deduplicated windows server file systems

TSM client cannot deal with natively deduplicated windows filesystems, it is only able to handle deduplicated data efficiently through image backups.The problem is that image backups are not incremental, they are huge and take too long to be viabl...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Self service file restore from tape - support for multiple volume mounts

Using self service file restore GUI if customer is having more than one volume to restore, the single file restore is failing from tape. The same thing works excellently from DISK. Since most of the customers stores their data on tape, its difficu...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

HyperSwap shows degraded host

Hello. In Sberbank Russia we tested HyperSwap on Storwize V7000 one year ago.Our SAN infrastructure not supported cross link connectivity between HOST1 - STORAGE2 and HOST2 and STORAGE1 (picture 1). Now, in HOSTS menu hosts in degraded status (pic...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache

preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache isn't supported at present. This is partially documented here:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1ins_afmlimitations.htm At least it men...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

BMR to dissimilar hardware

We frequently have to perform BMR to dissimilar hardware. This has to be done using something like Christie and the functionality is not availabile in Spectrum Protect. However it is available in competitor products. Both Avamar and Net Backup hav...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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