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Storage Protect Family

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Windows Spectrum Protect Client no need of Backupoperator to backup Shares

We use System Protect Client for Windows to backup/Archive files on our NAS from NetApp. But the System Protect Client for Windows needs to run with backupoperator rights. This is ok, if I am the only user. But a user with this right, has at least...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Admin permissions just for a domain

More and more of our customers are requesting access to our Operation Center, but in the current functionality of TSM and Operation Center there is no way to deny/grant access to a certain domain.What we are requesting is a way to shield the domai...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Store SSL Certificate using name instead of IP on client dsmcert.kdb

When connecting to a new Spectrum Protect server, certificate to the client dsmcert.kdb file is automatically added with a label of "ipaddress:port". This is problem with tunnel configuration where each Spectrum Protect server is associated to the...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM4VE: restore a vm with multiple hard drive's to different datastore's using vcenter plugin or BA client.

We use TSM4VE to backup VM's to Data Domain, SAP/ORACLE is hosted on VMware.We have RHEL VM's with multiple Hard drives(upto 30) on multiple datastores(raid 5, raid 1/0, dedicated datastores for data, logs, os). There is every chance that a VM is ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Reload ssl config without restarting server

Enable reload of ssl/tsl config without restarting the server.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

timeout for a locked volume

There is a possibility of a volume that is being used by a backup session be requested by a migration process, but because it is locked the migration process can enter in a "waiting for access to input volume" state that can lasts a very long time...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

TSM VE support vSphere 5.1 tags to assign VMs into managment class

vSphere 5.1 has introduced tags. See http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vCenter-Server-51-Technical-Whitepaper.pdfFrom the doc: The enhanced VMware® vCenterTM Inventory Service (vCenter Inventory Service) optimizes client s...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Migrate data from one cloud storage pool to another cloud storage pool

We need feature to migrate data from one cloud container storage pool to another cloud container storage pool using "move nodedata" as it's currently only support sequencial storage pool but won't support container storage pools
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Add capability to the dsmc command to set the node name, password and contact information without prompting. Add to dsmcutil?

It is very hard to trap the prompts from the dsmc command with open registration.Need way to execute the dsmc command and specify the node name, password and contact information to satisfy authentication without prompting. Another way might be wit...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

tdposync with script

Since migration to version 6.3.0, we are no more able to use tdposync in script because password is request on concole or terminal. Many Oracle DB is hosted in our Data Centers and cleanup TSM with RMAN Catalog can be a heavy load if this opportin...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

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