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Storage Protect Family

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Cloud Tiering by filespace for non-VM nodes

DEFINE SUBRULE LONGTERM LEGALHOLD LEGALHOLD001 ACT=TIERBYAGE TIERD=62 MAXPROC=20 FILESPACE="/longterm" ANR1998E DEFINE SUBRULE: Invalid value for FILESPACE parameter - /longterm The documentation does not clearly state, and only vaguely alludes to...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Oracle RAC One Node with Spectrum Protect Plus

We need a protection with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration with 2 servers nodes and differents db instances in the both nodes. In the Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.x fail applications inventory with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TSM4VE separate installation from configuration

During installation of TSM4VE the installer requires information about the vCenter and vCeneter user, including a password. This is not always needed (when not registering a plug-in or extension) and prevents a generic installation that can later ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enable dsmreconcile to run on arbitrary HSM nodes

We are currently developing a large archive solution based on IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management. In the particular setup we make heavy use of the Multiserver functionality of ISP for Space Management for scalability ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Ability to backup TOC objects to a Container pool.

There is an immediate need for the feature enhancement in Spectrum Protect to have the ability to backup TOCs to a Container pool besides current ability for backup server to collect and store file-level information in a table of contents (TOC) wh...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

To Improve Communication Between Spectrum Protect Server (on Windows Platform) and VTL (Fujitsu Eternus CS)

1. There is no option to define control path failover for medium changer (or timeout value for this), so whenever there is VLP failover in VTL or even small connection break, TSM immediately reports Library is not accessible and if we have volumes...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

TSM4VE UI does not support restore VMs multiple

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the parallel / multiple restore of VMs at a time. We are selected 4 VM's for the restoration only one process is started with VM restoration. After completing the 1st VM restoration 2nd VM proce...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

include a record in SPserver SUMMARY_EXTENDED for missed scheduled ( successful=no )

We need a single table to compute SLA , summary_extended seems to be the one to use. But we realized missed schedules are not included . they are in the events table.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

tsmdlst for direct attached SCSI libraries/drives

Since ISP 8.1.1 the tsmdlst tool in only supporting HBA / SAN attached libraries and tape drives.Find explanation here:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1&uid=swg1IT22703We are using several direct attached libraries and are pl...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM4VE Cleanup Abandoned Snapshots

TSM4VE should track its own snapshots, and periodically clean these up if no active backups are using those snapshots. Presently, if a backup is aborted, or proxy node rebooted, or etc., the VMWare snapshots created by that backup are never cleane...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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