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Exclude VMs based on VM size/.vmdk size with dsm.opt/cloptset exclusion

With the explosion of virtual machines taking over our datacenters, using TSM for Virtual Environments is crucial to successfully protecting the data in our IT organizations. It is obvious that there is no "one size fits all" tool for protecting t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE snapshots

System: TSM for VE 6.4.0New feature request for future release Description: TSM for VE requests VM snapshot creation at the beginning of a backup and snapshot removal at backup completion. No monitoring is done to ensure the snapshot has been remo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Optimize Write IO behaviour on DISK

Using diskpools (deviceclass=disk) or filepools (deviceclass=file) on a non-cached disk system is very slow, and therefore not usable. Example (same setup in both cases):TSM write to diskpoolon 8x Internal DISK = 8MB/sAIX cp command on 8x Internal...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Fix o disable "Replace" option in VSS DB Restore

Tivoli Data Protection for Databases(SQL) has the option to backup and restore either using Legacy or VSS options. Whenever you select Restore you have the hability to select various "Restore Options", among this options is "Replace""Replace" tell...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

New options to TSM server query session command

Query session option to display only sessions for a specific node. Query session option to display only specific sessions type.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow TSM client schedules to use "minutes" for PERUnits

Please allow the PERUnits to be able to be updated to a value smaller than "Hours" i.e. minutes or seconds
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support for ClientUpdate in NAT'ed setup

A sort of auto-detect mechanism would be nice for the ClientUpdate function - in order to detect which tcpserver address and tcp port number the client uses for communication.This is required, if client and the server are seperated ny at NAT'ing f...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments - Data Protection for VMware V. 8.1.2.0 - avoid add vsphere comment

Since TSM/VE 8.1.2.0 backup statistics are stored in vSphere Client column comment. To avoid this the parameter "testflag VMLASTBACKUPSTATUS:"NONE" could be used, but the backup Information must be Manually deleted. It would be friendly when this ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments, lacks the ability to accept out-of-date VMware tools to run application protection.

After upgrading, an ESXi host with a minor update, application protection for Microsoft SQL Server fails with the error below. ANS9499W VMware tools on virtual machine VM need to be updated. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application protection will n...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect - Request for unique identifier for summary items

Please see attached file.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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