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Storage Protect Family

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TSM Server Import Node from Media requires option to start from tape sequence # other than 1.

System: TSM ServerActor: Bendigo Bank TSM Media Exports have been actively used to migrate from our TSM 5.5 environment running on Windows 2003 to TSM 6.4.x running on AIX 7.1 Description:I have a very long media import to a TSM v6.3.4.100 server ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Exclusions by VM hardware version

The ability to exclude VMs based on hardware type.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

AIX JOURNAL-BASED BACKUP CAUSES "MISC KERNEL HEAP" MEMORY CONSUMPTION (APAR IC97751)

The "filepath" kernel extension used to monitor file system change activities allocates kernel heap memory for each file accessed on the system and keeps that memory until the system is rebooted. On systems with many files this memory consumption ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance exclude/include Single Disks processing during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of virtual machines specified using wild cards.Currently exclude/include.vmdisk statements containing wild cards a...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

Enhancing TMS4VE vCloud support to select destination datastore/datastore cluster in restore wizard

Implementing a dialogue to select destination datastore/datastore cluster when resoring a vApp with showing up the status enough or not enough space available like RFE 47160.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Intoducing datastore clusters in TSM4VE incl. status in initating restore process

Providing the datastore cluster name when recovering a vm in a vcenter environment. Implementing a dialog drill down to select datastore cluster or datastore with displaying available space. There should also be status symbol for enough or not eno...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Enhancing TSM4VE vCloud support to delete an existing vApp while restoring it

Enhancing the restore wizard to allow to specify an option to delete an existing vApp before restoring it and recreating while restoring it.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing TSM4VE vCloud support

Enhancing VCloud support to restore a single vm into an existing vApp in a vCloud environment.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Showing up vm size in the plugin/web gui interface while initiating restore wizard

Implementing the size information in the restore wizard vm source panel like in the backup/archive client gui.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration