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Spectrum Protect for VE / Reporting Enhancement / VE Data Mover Configruation

Report that shows VE Datamover configuration: - Shows the Mapping of . TSM/VE Server instance . ESXi Cluster . Datamover TSM Name . Datamover Hostname . # of ESXi Hosts managed . # of VMs managed . Capacity managed (for sizing and forecasting purp...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Summary table not getting updated while there was no data transfer

We have backup running daily for the node FITKUL0001. It seems that the data on this server rarely changes. Hence the backup runs successfully and no data is being transferred as there is no need to. So far it is fine for us as it is successful. T...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backup Status by Datamover Schedule Level

Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at Data Mover Schedule Level to show the following: . Scheduled start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . Datamover TSM Name . Datamover hostname . Backup Completion status . Error code
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set schedule on the TS7700 cache process

By the default, the TS7700 cache walk process runs every four hours daily, except on Sunday for a period of about 18 hours. This cache walk process has raised some concern from many customers that it may impact job run time.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

LVM mirror support within a single storage system, also without backup server.

We have a clustered pair of V7000 Gen3's which I would like to use with SPS for DB2 database snapshots. SPS does not currently support either hyperswap volumes, or LVM mirroring of two volumes on the same storage system (copies of which would resi...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Hyperswap support for Spectrum Protect Snapshot

We have a clustered pair of V7000 Gen3's which I would like to use with SPS for DB2 database snapshots. SPS does not currently support either hyperswap volumes, or LVM mirroring of two volumes on the same storage system (copies of which would resi...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SVC Encryption Algorithm Not Shown in GUI/CLI

After enabling SVC software encryption and encrypting all storage pools a customer requested that we provide a proof of encryption including algorithm used to encrypt data at rest. To our surprise SVC does not show algorithm used for the encryptio...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Data Shredding on Container Storage Pools

In some multi-tenancy TSM environments using Container Storage Pools there may be a requirement to prove to a specific user that data belonging to a backup client has been deleted from the Storage Pool. Even after the reuse delay has elapsed, it i...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SP for Databases warning for restoring VSS backups

A warning and summary should be implemented to confirm any kind of restore. When in the SP for Databases GUI, it is possible with 1 wrong click to initiate a SQL DB restore on a (production) system (log and full SQL)This should prevent "accidental...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 physical WORM

Logical WORM protection in TS7700 protects virtual volumes from being modified or deleted from the host perspective. However, it does not provide a protection from physical damage of e.g. the cache. Once migrated to physical tape there is also no ...
over 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

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