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Storage Protect Family

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Remove Active Directory membership requirement for 7.1.3 VE File Restore Portal

To use the ISP4VE 7.1.3 File Restore Portal, the vBS server must be a member of the active directory environment managing the authentication of the VMs protected by ISP. We would like this requirement removed. It should be possible to allow the vB...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM ERP for SAP HANA certification for Dynamic Tiering environments archive

SAP hana SPS 10 did release a feture dynamic Tiering that allow some data to be kept on disk (see presentation: https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62435)Those data could be mutiple TB to releive the cost of having it in memory.We would like to have TSM ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to node group

When adding a client node using the beautiful TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a disk only based solution with node replication where r...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Windows System State Backup does not include the Windows Internal Database

As parrt of the system state backup the Windows Internal Database WID does not form part of the system state backup. e.g. c$\Windows\WID\Data\master.mdf Windows own internal backup WBadmin backs this up as part of system state
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Allow selecting of vm to backup based on vmware tag

VMware supports "tagging" at the virtual machine, and / or the folder level. These tags could be exploited to determine which VM's to backup with TSM4Ve.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Use a single GUID per machine in a TDPDOM WIN86 environment

Problem title GUID flapping (repeated ANR1639I messages) Environment: Product or Service: Data Protection for Domino Windows 7.1.W Component ID: 5698DPDAP VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard Edition Lotus Domino 8.5.2 FP4 x32 TSM se...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Is a defect

Allow server/oc silent install script to work across revisions

Currently, an install script has to specify specific versions/revisions of TSM server and OC code when identifying what components to install. This means the script is only good for that v.r.m.f.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE 6.4.1 support for vSphere 5.0

Customer updated its vCenter from version 5.0 to 5.5, but the vSphere environment remained on version 5.0. With this, they cannot use TSM for VE 6.4.1 (that does not support vCenter 5.5) or TSM for VE 7.1, that does not support vSphere 5.0.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

tdpoconf limitations when configuration TDP for oracle

TDPOCONF is limited as we cannot parse additional parameters when we run the password configuration. Ideally, it would be best if we could run tdpoconf password and automatically parse the password automatically within a script. This is a major ro...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TSM: Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a Linux cluster environment

Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a cluster environment
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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