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SP for VMware multiple proxies in web client

In some SP for VMware environments using just one proxy node may not be optimal or even possible.The SP for VMware Vsphere Web client integration must be able to handle multiple proxy node configs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

INCLUDE.VMDISK improvement

Our policy should be to make an image of only the OS-disk of VM VMWare, with TSM for VE . Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI(0:0) is located on “hard ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - aplication awareness for Oracle DB and Sybase DB as already exists with 7.1.3 for Exchange and Microsoft SQL

System: TSM for VE - Oracle and Sybase DBsActor: Tivoli Storage AVP client needing support for Oracle and Sybase DBs on TSM for VE TSM for VE currently provides aplication awareness and consistency for Microsof Exchange and SQL - this is required ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SP Operation Center Front-End licensing improvement

Please, improve the functionality of front-end licensing on SP Operation Center. Currently, it is only showing active-data on the front-end licensing which is not completely true.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

24H Clock needed in DP for VMware/OC

Installing/configuring/educating users on Spectrum Protect including DP for VMware and Operations Center on a daily basis we have found a annoying drawback. In Sweden (and other countries) we are using 24H clock and we are not used to AM/PM weird ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Inband solution as alternative to CMS

When we heard about CMS (Client Management Services) during "Tivoli User Group" meeting in Sweden we loved the feature but the implementation not so much.The current Implementation has two huge drawbacks1) Another client on the system which needs ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple Clientoptionsets for Nodes

Possibillity to assign multiple Cloptset to a node to build a cascade of rules. The Priority will follow the order the Cloptsets are assigned.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Restrict FCM to manage the own source and target volumes (multi tenancy)

Reference: Technical Exchange call with Mr. Uhl, Munz, Calvus 7/18/2013In a shared SAN-enviroment, security is very important for a service provider with multiple customers. We want to use FCM running on different operating systems in combination ...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration