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Storage Protect Family

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On install OC accept unaccepted characters in the password , installation fails later on.

On install of Operations Center one is requested to enter a password, a list of special character is listed however the installer at this point do not check if the password I enter is valid. The installation continues but hangs later on installing...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Vsnaps with several interfaces.

We have two ethernet networks one 10GB and the other 1GB. The Vmware env has the two networks and Oracle has only 1GB. If I configure the Vsnap with both networks it uses 1GB for Vmware where we have 10 and 1 GB Ethetnet network, I would like to k...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Tape management in Operations Center

Using the TSM Operations Center - manage tape. Checkin, checkout, volume occupancy.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Select Node, which using Encryption, from Server

We have system with nearly 11000 nodes and I would like to know as Server-Administrator, which nodes have encrypted data and can be affected by some changes.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support for vmware snapshot larger than 2 TB

vmware 5.5 supports disks larger than 2 TB but we are not able to make snapshots with TSM4VE
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Certificate based client validation

It would be nice, if certificate based validation could be used for clients - in order to enhance the security regarding client validation towards the TSM server.Client certificates could be issued using a local PKI - and when a client connects, t...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments should support nested VMFolder structure

When doing the VMware Backup using TSM for Virtual Environments with the "VMFOLDER" option we backup only machines residing directly in that VMFOLDER. Many cutomers are using a nested folder concept (Folders inside a Folder). TSM for VE does not r...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

File restore GUI: Microsoft Windows user account cannot access its own user folders

When using File Restore GUI to restore single files to a Windows vm you get an access denied error when trying to restore files and folders protected by UAC. This can be profile folders (C:\Users) or the DATA folder in a SQL instance. The problem ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Virtualized Application Support

Currently the vStorage API for Data Protection creates VMware snapshots before TSM moves the data to TSM Pools. These VMware snapshots are able to create a filesystem data consistency or an application consistency if the application is VSS aware. ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

ANR2578W and ANR2579E - Include node hostname information

One of the roadblocks we have at the moment is that the missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname of the node. ANR2578W Schedule schedule name in domain domain name for node node name has missed its scheduled start up windo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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