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Storage Protect Family

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Support NDMP Cluster Aware Backup for Netapp Filer

Ontap 8 Clustermode supports NDMP backup of virtual filers. To backup all volumes independent of where the volumes are stored, NDMP Cluster Aware Backup is needed. See https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196874/html/GUID-D1DBE2B8-1C3E-444D-9A0...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Support syncronous write with ndmp backup

define stgpool says, that "simultaneous-write function is not supported for NAS backup operations". It would remove the necessesity to copy all tapes to a copypool after each NDMP backup.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance logging of replication failures

We are using node replication between two TSM 6.3.2.0 servers, and were experiencing some replication failures, which was due to operator error. The issue was that one policy domain on the source server did not exist on the target server, so the r...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Solaris x86 TSM Client support beyond version 6.2.5

Currently the latest version of the TSM client is the 6.2.x client code. There are only Solaris SPARC versions available in later releases. We would like to see the x86 platforms supported.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Allocation of (file-based) Scratch Volumes

For file-based storage pools only.1. TSM does not take into account free space in the fileystem when allocating new Scratch volumes2. Owing to 1 if new disk (filesystems) are added there is no fuction that will "even out" disk usage. This RFE is t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TDP ERP for SAP Support for DB2 v10.x Red Hat Linux

Hello RFE-Team,your newest Version of TDP ERP for SAP DB2 is 6.3.xThis TDP Version has only Toleration Support for AIX for DB2 v10.xWe have Custumers with SAP ERP and DB2 V10.x with Operating Systemm Red Hat Linux 6.xThere have already been severa...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Planned for future release

This applies to Spectrum CDM: enchance GUI ergonomy

Client noticed that when defining a schedule for a Spectrum CDM job, there are no “Save” or “OK” buttons on the schedule configuration window (see document attached) and it is required to click outside the Window to save changes. This is considere...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Populate the file space information with VM space information

The current filespace information consists of a capacity and percent utilized. For a VM backup this information is blank. I propose that the capacity correspond to the vcenter reported value Provisioned Storage and the percent utilized be calculat...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backup status report scope

There is a pulldown on the Backup Status report in the vCenter plug-in that allows the user to select a Datacenter for the scope of the report.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

API support for backups of RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

Customers are asking if TSM will support the API for processing backups in the RHEV environment... "Red Hat is already collaborating with several industry leaders to integrate their solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization via the new plug...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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