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DS8k Metadata volume

On 8/3/2018 the HPFE in our DS8886 lost two drives at the same time, in the same rank. To recover we had to delete the entire storage pool because there is a volume of meta data for each storage pool, and that pool happened to land it on the faili...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Update on "best effort" Support

Our University uses TSM Client for our site-wide backup and archive strategy. However we have multple Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS instances. Some are under "best effort". Recently the actual debian (v8, released in April 2015) is not in this list. I...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE UUID Change

When a VM uuid changes and an existing filespace with that VM name exists in TSM the BM backup fails. Using testflag VMBACKUP_UPDATE_UUID works around this problem by having TSM check vCenter for the current UUID. This should be the default behavi...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Full VM Restore into alternate datastore, add capacity, util + free space of target datastore

When performing a full VM restore into an alternate datastore it would be more than helpful to see besides the datastore name also the information about the whole capacity / utilized capacity / free capacity of the datastore to be able to select a...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enforce Volser ranges explicitly when they are present.

In the TS4500 library software if volser ranges are configured, I would like the library software to explicitly enforce these volser range rules. If a tape is entered that does not fall within the volser range rules the tape is treated as a foreig...
about 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

TSM6.3 BAClient : Restore : Volume and number of files : estimation

Before to launch restoring with the baclient, the number of files and the total volume are checked.It's dangerous to launch a blind restore.This functionality was available in TSM5.5. The process duration was also provided.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

Incremental backup support in NDMP based backup for IBM TSM 7.1.

Require Incremental backup support for NDMP based backup in IBM TSM.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time listing the restorable Items

TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time to list the restorable items for a single item restore (around 8 min). Customer does not accept it and he is thinking of to change the backup software vendor.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Planned for future release

TSM for VE support of VRA

TSM support for vRA (VMware vRealize Automation Center) based VMs
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add TSM4VE control files to TSM DB

Currently a diskpool is required to hold control files for TSM4VE backups. This data would be much easier to manage if it were located directly in the TSM DB
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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