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Storage Protect Family

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CDM support for VVols

Customer is looking for CDM to support full VVols functionality. VVols is running in production in this customer site.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup Client for Debian Linux

Debian und viele andere Linuxdistributionen (z.B. Ubuntu, Univention, Knopix, ...) nutzen nicht das RedHat Packeage format rpm, sondern ein anderes Format namens .deb. Damit ist man bei der Erstellung der Pakete immer auf zusätzliche Konvertierung...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE / Reporting Enhancement / VE Data Mover Configruation

Report that shows VE Datamover configuration: - Shows the Mapping of . TSM/VE Server instance . ESXi Cluster . Datamover TSM Name . Datamover Hostname . # of ESXi Hosts managed . # of VMs managed . Capacity managed (for sizing and forecasting purp...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Summary table not getting updated while there was no data transfer

We have backup running daily for the node FITKUL0001. It seems that the data on this server rarely changes. Hence the backup runs successfully and no data is being transferred as there is no need to. So far it is fine for us as it is successful. T...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backup Status by Datamover Schedule Level

Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at Data Mover Schedule Level to show the following: . Scheduled start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . Datamover TSM Name . Datamover hostname . Backup Completion status . Error code
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM platform mgration

We're asking for a simplified procedure apt to migrate a TSM server from Unix to Windows and vice-versa .Export-import node can be cumbersome in many situation.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Over calculation of space needed for NDMP backup

When attempting to do an NDMP backup of a virtual filespace, instead of looking at the amount of data in the filespace that is being backed up, TSM looks at the entire used storage of the NAS filer to determine whether the storage pool target is l...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Data Shredding on Container Storage Pools

In some multi-tenancy TSM environments using Container Storage Pools there may be a requirement to prove to a specific user that data belonging to a backup client has been deleted from the Storage Pool. Even after the reuse delay has elapsed, it i...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release