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Spectrum Protect Snapshot

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Request RHEL 6.6 support for FCM 4.1.x:

Request RHEL 6.6support for Flash copy manager 4.1x
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

"DATABASE_MEMORY like" option in profile CLONING section

It should be possible to clone SAP/DB2 environment to another environment without requiring the same amount of memory just because of the check/recovery phase of the cloning process.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Delivered

FCM CBT support for power-off VMs

Change block tracking is not supported without a snapshot. FCM doesn't take a snapshot of power-off VMs before the Backup, so CBT is not working and a full VM Backup is performed
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

FCM VM_DONT_QUIESCE_ON_SNAPSHOT

TSM FCM for VMware lack of support for no QUIESCE_ON_SNAPSHOT
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

FlashCopy Manager version 4.1 support for DB2 version 9.7

We installed xcli v.3.1.1 for FCM 3.2 The configuration failed as the system indicated that xcli v2.3.1 was required. So we don't understand how it can fail if v3.1.x is one of the supported and tested versions for FCM 3.2. Can they please avail t...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

FCM for VMWare lacks support for parallel offload backups to TSM

Parallel backups in a very large environment are mandatory and flashcopy manager in a small vmware environment is really not needed.So in an large environment with one vmware datacenter and more than 2000 vms not being able to run parallel backup ...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

Allow Oracle Control File in Data-DG

allow Oracle control files in any ASM-DG
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 22 Delivered

FCM Exchange: FlashCopy volume direct mount also for mailbox restore

Customer needs direct FlashCopy volume mount also for individual restores (single DB-restore, mailbox restore, mailbox browser) in FCM for Exchange.It's possible at the moment with "instant restore" for the whole Exchange DB.For single item restor...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

FCM Cloning: Lift multiple user limitation for Oracle

For the cloning process of FlashCopy Manager (FCM), it requires two users at the target clone system. One user to recover the cloned database (old sid) and one user to start it with the new sid. Each user runs with his own dedicated $ORACLE_SID. T...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

Tivoli FCM for VMware

using FCM 3.2.0 We are an SAP shop which on a frequent basis refreshes PRD to QAS environments. We wanted to use FCM to perform this landscape "refresh" . One of the requirements though is to preserve the "TARGET" environment (unmount FS and renam...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered