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Storage Protect Family

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Dropdown lists for Restore VM operations

It would be nice to have the client populate the Datacenter, Host,, and Datastore options in the Restore VM screen.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

TCPPort LISTEN limit to single service ip addresses

In the dsmserv.opt should be an option added to set the specified TCPPort listen only on a few single ip addresses and not on all, like now. netstat -an | grep LISTEN...tcp4 0 0 *.1501 *.* LISTEN...This security issue occur if you run more then on...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Q STGP to display % free as well as % Util

It would be handy to have Q STGP display what is truely avaliable for use in a storage pool, rather than just what is utilised. If you run the command it will show you how much disk is currently in use, but unless you also look at Q VOL STGP=<P...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

reduce install size of TSM Server

Currently the size of the TSM V6 server is 1.6 - 1.8GB. This is regardless of a fresh install, upgrade or minor fix install. The majority of the space appears to be consumed by db2. We have 1200 TSM servers, mostly located at remote sites with low...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Long Waiting for access on FDEVC during Migration

During migration i file is in use by a client backup session. Migration is waiting until the file is mountable for the process. it takes very very long:Waiting for access to input volume /tsmstg2/tsm152/0000CB96.BFS (24108 seconds). This can be al...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Domino presnapshot script should monitor nservice.exe

Domino presnapshot causes error 2518 when net start "Lotus Domino Server (xDominodata)" because of presnapshot try to launch Domino Service even though nservice.exe process still live. presnapshot should watch nservice.exe process.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Is a defect

Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM.

Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM. DD Boost, formerly called Data Domain Boost Software, enables part of the deduplication effort to be offloaded to the backup client server. DD Boost is now integrated with EMC NetWorker as well as wit...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Dedup info command

A tool for information of the status of DedupQ DEDUPlike 'sh dedupdeleteinfo' witch is a undocumented one
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

TSM to issue a "retryable" error code to RMAN to avoid loosing the session

Enhandmente for the API between RMAN and TSM: problem: if TSM issues an error Oracle closes the session and does not try again; suggestion: TSM to return a retryable error code to Oracle. Oracle then can retry the backup on another channel. Limita...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 4 Not under consideration

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