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Storage Protect Family

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TSM for VE exclude VMDKs from Backup

It would be useful to exclude some partitions/vmdks (temp-files, software-images, ...) from the backup.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

TSM Client for Solaris 11 (SPARC and X86) Support

Current TSM-Client(s) do not run on Solaris 11. (Not only it is not supported, it simply doesn´t work on Solaris 11)So we request a working and supported TSM-Client for Solaris 11
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Delivered

Allow for full TLS configuration of TSM server

We currently offer backups to our customers where the internet is the transport network. This requires the use of TLS. However, TSM does not allow for configuration of TLS Ciphers, making it impossible to enable PFS ciphers supported by GSKIT. TSM...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

2 TB limit for Hyper-V VHDs

Hyper-V VHDs that have 2 TB or more space allocated, can not be backed up by TSM VE. Backups fail almost immediately when attempted.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Provide accounting records for NDMP backups and restores

NDMP full/differential backups (and restores) should create an accounting session record in dsmaccnt just as client backups do, containing at a mimum start/end time and bytes transferred, but also if possible commwait and mediawait times. (Anythin...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

TSSM Migration Utility Enhancement

Customer is migrating from AIX to Linux per a corporate mandate to move to Linux. Customer already upgraded from TSM 5.x to 6.x using the migration utility to migrate from the proprietary TSM datatabase to DB2. They used IBM ECM Services for this ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Success/Failure of VM backups

Currently success/failure rates of individual VM backups via the proxy are not recorded. I'd like this recorded and shown in either the Admin Centre or TSM Monitoring/Reporting server.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Retain by objects versions in primary Pools. Data lifecycle optimization.

Allow primary storage pool to store only ACTIVE versions, X inactive versions or XX days of inactive versions. Mark and Migrate to next storage pool only the inactive versions.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Simplify file-level recovery

Simplify file-level recovery
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Delivered

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