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TSM need to provide way to increase number of migraton process per node

Refer documentations http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21633725 Per node any given time only one migration process possible. When using TSM for Email Archive application per day effectively we can archive around 150GB of EMAIL. When...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

CBT Issue in vSphere - VE needs to leverage vSphere API to more efficiently mitigate this issue

Read this: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2090639 When you read it, look at this statement: Note: It is not required to power off the virtual machine to change the CBT configur...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Little Endian Support for Linux on Power

With the shift for Linux on Power from Big Endian to Little Endian.There is a need for Little Endian support, especially since RedHat is the only major vendor with a current version of Linux (RHEL7) that is Big Endian. SUSE, Ubuntu, and others are...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TDP Vmware GUI second instance create

Based on our TS003054284 case, please describe us the method of the second TDP Vmware GUI instance creation on linux, because want to connect a second vCenter server too.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

No image backup possible on AIX "Mirror-Pool" environment

TSM does a mklv command to create a logical volume to place a snapshot within a AIX volumegroup. This command uses a mklv on a sinlge hdisk.This is not allowed / possible on AIX mirror-pools. So the backup fails.See Technote 1634886.The mklv coman...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Orphan Snapshot

Detect and Remove Orphan and Non Orphan Snapshots before closing Backup Log.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes

Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

q events and select * from events are slow

Queries using q events take a long time. It looks like the table is not index'ed properly. This goes for TSM Server 6 and 7
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Could not backup vmdk bigger than 2TB

Unable to get VM guest saved that has disks bigger than 2 TBgetting the error :ANS2687W The virtual machine 'ITSVCS2' contains one or more disks that exceed the maximum size limit. I know this is a TSM limitation based on a VMware recommendation; ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM's snmp subagent should be supported on Linux directly

Alerting and monitoring via Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus (from the ITNM suite) should integrate with TSM server running on Linux directly, but it currently does not. TSM's SNMP subagent requires an extension SNMP-DPI, which only exists on AIX. This requ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration