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    Relabel-On-Scratch option for external library manager

    When TSM Server recycles (frees) a virtual tape of a VTL this is eliminated from the TSM DB, but not from the VTL. So statistics e.g. Dedup factor are distorted over time. To prevent from this the TSM Relabel-on-Scratch option was introduced. But ...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    VOLHISTORY Maintenance

    In reference to the growth of the VOLHISTORY file due to the entries of the new volumes that are created weekly by the FILE-type STGs. Weekly the VOLHISTORY file grows since every week new volumes are generated in the STG of file type, these volum...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Exclude VMs based on VM size/.vmdk size with dsm.opt/cloptset exclusion

    With the explosion of virtual machines taking over our datacenters, using TSM for Virtual Environments is crucial to successfully protecting the data in our IT organizations. It is obvious that there is no "one size fits all" tool for protecting t...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE snapshots

    System: TSM for VE 6.4.0New feature request for future release Description: TSM for VE requests VM snapshot creation at the beginning of a backup and snapshot removal at backup completion. No monitoring is done to ensure the snapshot has been remo...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    INCLUDE.VMDISK improvement

    Our policy should be to make an image of only the OS-disk of VM VMWare, with TSM for VE . Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI(0:0) is located on “hard ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    SPP PLUS: ENHANCE SPP TO UPDATE VM GUID INTO AN EXISTING BACKUP

    -Enhance SPP plus to be able to update VM GUID into an existing backup.- An option that updates the globally unique identifier (GUID) for the virtual machine that are being backed up.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

    Allow TSM client schedules to use "minutes" for PERUnits

    Please allow the PERUnits to be able to be updated to a value smaller than "Hours" i.e. minutes or seconds
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Changing the mnt directory from root to dedicated file system

    If we have a dedicated filesystem, it won't affect the space on root file system on Production servers. In our environment only, we faced the situation like the root file system is full due to this /mnt/spp/vsnapx/fspooly/ directory.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    IBM V3700 Storewize Email functionality

    Hello Team, Currently, our storewize has been configured with email feature under the path (Notifications --> Email configured) and we do receive "Alert Event Notifications" whenever there is an issue/event generated within Storewize like Drive...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    TSM for Virtual Environments, lacks the ability to accept out-of-date VMware tools to run application protection.

    After upgrading, an ESXi host with a minor update, application protection for Microsoft SQL Server fails with the error below. ANS9499W VMware tools on virtual machine VM need to be updated. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application protection will n...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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