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Cluster management address should not move after reboot

If only one cannister has an active IP network connection (due to external failure or some other issue) the management IP address (cluster address) should not "float" to the cannister that has no active connection. It should stay locked to the one...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Windows 2012 dedup API's

Need TSM to take advantage of the Windows 2012 dedup API's. This we are not rehydrating the information when we are backing up a 2012 server that is using the native dedup built in.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client snapdiff functionality improvement to verify '.snapshot' directory visibility

This RFE proposes to improve TSM Client snapdiff functionality for verifying '.snapshot' directory visibility and return an error code or a failed schedule status if .snapshot directory is not accessible when the client tries to read the data
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Allow TSM for VE VMCLI to report VM deleted status

Enhance the VMCLI command to return the status of VMs deleted. Currently only the TSM for VE UI can generate the list of VM backups where the original VM has been removed from the VMware environment and therefore is in a 'deleted' state. While UI ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

deduplication sequential pool

Hello, After 14 month of TSM deduplicaiton tests with terrible Performancewe would wish to have deduplication volumes on device class=disk. At the Moment only devclass = sequential is supported.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

New Feature Required for SVC Replication

SVC replication problems have been affecting the performance of production environment of Isbank for a long time. The SVC environment virtualized 6PB of data where 300TB capacity is replicated to BCRS site. There's an urgent requirement that we ne...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 Environmentals

We have a requirement to record real environmental statistics (i.e power,cooling etc). as a whole for the array
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 Copy on Write

Would like V7000 functionality to have the ability to change a relation in full mode to a copy on write relationship
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Alert Summaries Interval Change

Allow for a change to the time interval for email alert summaries by email. Currently, alert summaries are sent approximately every hour. My request was to allow for daily summaries. In addition, the ability to modify the email alert summaries to ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE support for vCAC - VMware vCloud Automation Center

Customer at MIT has learned that VMware is moving away from vCloud Director and towards vCloud Automation Center. Initial response from TSM Development is "no plans to support vCAC". If Customer cannot back up vCAC environment with TSM, they may t...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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