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Search results: Storage Protect Family

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Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SP Recovery Agent Session Selection Saving

When you utilize "IBM Spectrum Protect Recovery Agent" and configure a "New IBM Spectrum Protect server ..." under the "IBM Spectrum Protect Server" section, it will override any previously configured servers (removes any previously configured ser...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TS3500 (3584) time synchronization (NTP)

We have a TS3500 Tape Library and we can not set the date & time synchronization to the company's internal NTP server, there is no such option on the Web-based Administration Interface.Please give us an advice how to do this or please enhance ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Request to run TSM Server on Solaris11

We want you to add Solaris11 as a supported platform for TSM Server.In FUJITSU business negotiations, there are many requests to runTSM Server on Solaris11. However, at present TSM server does not support Solaris11 as a supported platform. For thi...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Restore to Alternate Location Options

Restoring a VM to an alternate location is lacking sufficient details and options to allow for a prompt and quick restore.1. The drill-down provided goes from data center to ESX host and then to data store. I believe another option to select a clu...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Adjustments to selecting backups in TSM for ve

The way you have to build schedules and select virtual machines for schedules is so archaic. I don't want to go down my list of esxi hosts and filter through all of my virtual machines. Show me clusters and folders and other ways than just one way...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TDP agent Exchange 2010 DAG awareness

1. TDP agent aware of all the nodes in the DAG cluster so that they would be visible from any TDP agent GUI in the cluster. 2. TDP agent acts as the conductor on DAG setups when performing backup so backups can be started in parallel on each windo...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Delivered

VM "self-defined" backup using VM custom attributes

Many large IT organization are performing VM backups in a multi-tenant environment. In those complex environments, the VM naming convention cannot always be fixed by the IT and thus, backup setup rules thru the VM name (wildmask filters, host sele...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Exclude SRM placeholders in TSM for VE backups

There are no viable options to exclude SRM placeholders from TSM for VE backups. TSM for VE should either identify or filter out SRM placeholders from showing in the backup selection view.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

q events and select * from events are slow

Queries using q events take a long time. It looks like the table is not index'ed properly. This goes for TSM Server 6 and 7
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration