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HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC vPlex (VNXe/Unity)

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs and vPlex on VNXe/Unity for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Restore VM for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines to be enhance to add parameter destinationfilespec

We need to restore Hyper-V virtual machines backup to different server at different location. Since this functionality is not available in restore vm command we are not able to restore VM to different lcoation. As per IBM L2 support TSM doesn't su...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Define subrule (tiering) add syntax

When making a "Define subrule" for tiering you are only able to use node_name. It would be perfect if it was possible to use node_group_name as well, just like in define subrule for replication.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC Compellent

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs. Customer also use vPlex+VNXe for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Changes for ISP Server/Client

Will there be an Systemd-Daemon file one day for better controlling of the system processes of the ISP software?Because the ISP server and client software haven't yet an native systemd-daemon and are using still the old SysV-Init-Daemon files whic...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Correction of data usage on remote storage needed

When using TSM as remote storage for FB4WKS/CDP4Files, the amount of data being used as reported by the client does not match the number from the occupancy report in TSM.This is not an optimal solution, if clients are billed based on the number of...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

Central confuguration of Enableinstrumentation parameters by client option set

ENABLEINSTRUMENTATION is set to "on" by default and can only be turned off locally via option in dsm.sys/dsm.opt. It can be highly advisable to be able to set this option dynamically via client option set option along with instlogmax and instrlogn...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Allow exclude vm disks in the TSM4VE GUI (or select/include only particular disks to be backed up for a VM)

We utilise TSM4VE to take backups of the system disk only of virtual servers like SQL. TSM4VE requires manual entries in the dsm.opt file. This is cumbersome and error prone, and having inclusions for disks available in the GUI would make this pro...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

allow VM exclusion via tagging in Spectrum Protect Plus

please add the capability to exclude VMs based upon specific vSphere Tags, in addition to the ability to include via tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Operations Centre to validate internet access via a proxy

New Feature in Operations center to manage client autodeploy us currently inoperative if the Customer is running a WEB Proxy as the current release 8.1.4 or the OC cannot authenticate itself for web access and hence can't download the required pac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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