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Client TSM for Hyper-V

In our company we use client TSM for Hyper-V version 7.1.6.5. Client is installed on cluster with Windows Server Datacenter 2012R2 with role Hyper-V.During we use this client and run client TSM for Hyper-V, users have to be in group "Administrator...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Minimize impact to DS8K when replacing an DA Card

"Bad" response time occurred duringthe period that DA card was being repaired.Please see PMH 32678,100,838. The customer would like if possible to reduce the impact during DA repair process.
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Exch. TDP restore -progress bar not displayed

Restore of Exchange database using Tivoli Storage Management software no longer shows the status or progress bar until completion of the restore, or part of the restore. For example, if we restore from full and incremental backup, the status will ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

IBM Flashsystem 820 SMI-S Support

Hello Development Team, is there any SMI-S / CIMOM Provider to get even a minimal visibility of the IBM Flashsystem 820. Any help is appreciated.Thomas
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Sensors Install Symlink behavior change (avoid overwrite)

Installing the gpfs sensor package will result in zimon been installed under /opt/IBM/zimon. In case /opt already exists this migthresult in problems, in our case it was a symlink to the gpfs filesystem which was silently deleted. This was seen wi...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

EMC PowerPath calls for FlashCopy Manager

RFE for Spectrum Protect Snapshot to support EMC PowerPath calls.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Journalled Based Backup for Veritas VXFS

We have a shared Veritas filesystem that contains a million plus files. We have a RPO of 15 minutes for these. The standard TSM client takes approximately 1.5 hours to examine this filesystem and so we badly miss our RPO. The JBB does exactly what...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Metro Mirror TimeStamp

To have the ability to query Metro Mirror target DS8K about the timestamp of the last synchronous valid replication.
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

surviving a rolling disaster

V5030 hyperswap is not tolerant against IP connection lost on IP Quorum configuration. When there was a rolling disaster, even on a short period of time, that the IP quorum application was marked failed and meant the surviving site was unable to c...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Oracle rman cumulative incremental backups for native oracle installation

Please check PMR 27612,820,820 there is everything what is needed thanks
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

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