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FlashSystem V9000 Reverse FlashCopy in integrated GUI

Customer is derating FlashSystem V9000 solution in XtremIO comparison, because they use FlashCopy and Reverse FlashCopy in current environment (EMC) and can do both of this operations in 2 clicks (10 seconds, reported in POC results). In FlashSyst...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow selecting of vm to backup based on vmware tag

VMware supports "tagging" at the virtual machine, and / or the folder level. These tags could be exploited to determine which VM's to backup with TSM4Ve.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

new authority class "QUERY" for query and select privilege

In order to restrict the query and select commands for all the administrators having only client owner authority I put "QUERYAuth<br /> Storage" in dsmserv.opt. In order to monitor the server activity, I    have defined the ad...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

When SVC upgrade stalls and you click abort upgrade a warning states that hosts will lose access but there is no CANCEL

When customer encounters a stalled upgrade, they have an option to Stop Upgrade. When that is selected another pop up window shows up that states "There are volumes that can only be accessed via one node. These volumes will become unavailable. Cli...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Tsm4ve in vcloud mode can only use wild card to select, not de-select

With TSM4VE backing up a vsphere cluster, it is easy with a -vm option, and wildcards to exclude vm's from backing up. When pointing to a Vcloud Director, and backing up vapps, you can include vapps with wildcards, but not exclude them. Every VAPP...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Configurable Read Preference Policy for VDisk Mirrors

Add an option when creating VDisk/Volume mirrors to set the Read preference policy for the mirror. By default the read preference is set to VDisk/Volume copy_id 0. Would like to have an option added to VDisk mirror creation commands that allows fo...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to collocation group

When adding a client node using the slick TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a tape based solution where collocation groups are available...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Enable mirroring on a managed disk level

An extension is requested, such that we could enable mirroring on a managed disk level. This would allow an administrator to select that two managed disks should be mirrored, resulting in a new mirrored managed disk object to be included in a give...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

write priority selectable via GUI

Write priority should be selectable each time a new vdisk ist created via GUI or should be pre-defined e.g.via global settings (if possible).Most SVC installations (99%) are stretched cluster and in my opinion it is most important to select the ri...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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