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Self service file restore from tape - support for multiple volume mounts

Using self service file restore GUI if customer is having more than one volume to restore, the single file restore is failing from tape. The same thing works excellently from DISK. Since most of the customers stores their data on tape, its difficu...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SVC planned maintenance for vdisk mirror

My customer is planning to use SVC stretched cluster as a high available solution for the two data centers that are located close to each other (less than 1 km distance). They are asking for a function to "suspend" the vdisk mirror on one side wit...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Allow swapping a DRAID member drive without triggering a RAID rebuild.

We would like to be able to do a drive swap of a DRAID member without triggering a RAID rebuild. The same current functionality of TRAID charraymember.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Tiring by occupancy

Add the ability to define tiring rule, that takes node occupancy into account.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Request to forcibly disconnect multiple TS7760s from the grid by command operation.

The customer is requested to be able to forcibly disconnect multiple TS7760s from the grid by command operation.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Solaris x86 TSM Client support for Version 7.x

We have productive Solaris Servers both x86 and SPARC on Solaris 10 and 11. We run our SAP-Environment and other Services and continue to deploy further Functionalities on Solaris. Most of our central Products run on Solaris. There are no plans to...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc)

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc).TSM Client is bigger than the rest of a WinPE BootCD and also containing unneeded files like JAVA. This need more time to load the image into RAM during boot a...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

HyperSwap shows degraded host

Hello. In Sberbank Russia we tested HyperSwap on Storwize V7000 one year ago.Our SAN infrastructure not supported cross link connectivity between HOST1 - STORAGE2 and HOST2 and STORAGE1 (picture 1). Now, in HOSTS menu hosts in degraded status (pic...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

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