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Agent:Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux

Certified OS agent for the followingOracle Linux 5.9 (Redhat compatible kernel)Oracle Linux 5.9 (UEK kernel) Certified TDP agent to run on above OS with Oracle versions10gR2, 11gR1++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Certified OS ag...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

disable the disk signatures when doing the install of the data movers for TSM VE

When a customer installs TSM VE on a vStorage Backup Server for Windows using the SAN mode (i.e. data store LUNs zoned to vStorage Backup Server), the customer suggests that the install wizard tells the user that it will disable automatic disk sig...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

multi-vmdk restore in parallel

multi-vmdk restore in parallel
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM LAN-Free backup to Disk devices support

Need TSM support LAN-Free functions to backup data to disk devices.Formerly, TSM using SANergy to achive this , but now SANergy is end of market. We need a feasible solution for the Lan-Free functions to disk support
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Tivoli TDP for ERP for Oracle: Support for RHEL 6

TDP for ERP (Oracle) should be enhanced to support installations running on RHEL 6.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 7 Delivered

Direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server

It would be helpful if a TSM server could direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server, either temporarily or permanently. Currently we have to change a TSM configuration file on a client server (dsm.opt) to change its default or find how ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM4VE vCenterPlugin: Possibility to attach/restore volumes

Currently the TSM4VE vCenter Plugin only allows to restore a whole VM. To restore single volumes of a VM or to mount a volume in order to restore single files, a separate GUI (TSM4VE Recovery Agent) must be started. It is required to have this fun...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Tivoli TSM clustering

There should be an functionality to configure existing TSM instance into windows 2008 r2 cluster.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

TSM DB backups via HW snapshot

Enable backups of TSM's own internal DB by using hardware's snapshot ability in a way that updates archive logs appropriately, just as if a "real" DB backup was done.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

VMware Backup Support for Vapps using Vstorage API & Exclude Raw Device Mapping Disk

The DSMC client using the "Backup VM" command fails to see and backup any virtual machines on a ESXi v4.1 server. This is somewhat critical for a Enterprise environment where we use Vapps to manage our servers! The Vstorage API shrinks the backup ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

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