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sort order of query occupancy command

With version 6 of TSM server the sorting order of "query occupancy"has changed from "fsid" to "alphabetical order". Why? The sorting order of commands "query filespace" (sorted by fsid)and "query ocupancy" should be the same. My opinion: This is a...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SVC to support native 6 and 8 HBA configurations

I have many future installations needing to have SVC nativity to support 6 and 8 HBA configurations without needing to create multiple Host entries for the same host. Today if i assign HBA to Node 1 port 1, HBA 2 node 2 Port2, HBA 3 Node1 Port 3.....
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

make CANCEL REPL end the replication process under any and all circumstances

delev245 = repltargetdelev245 is not responsible, but running. Ping server delev245 also hangs this situationwas caused by an unresponsive target linux host. ALL replsource servers have to be restarted. How to recover from a hanging "Cancelling re...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Request for Infiniband Support on SAN Volume Controller nodes

FlashSystems technical sales manager Subhash Vanga (svanga@us.ibm.com) has notified me that there is a pressing need for IBM support on SVC where it is being sold with FlashSystems. "it kind of becomes important with Flash virtualized behind it..A...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FCM: VMware - Additional Question for Security Reasons

In case of restore a VM to its original location, the Plugin asks to overwrite it. This is great. We would like to see another additional question, if the VM still is running. E.g. "The VM you want to restore is still running. Do you really want t...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V backup of a Hyper-V guest that has a disk hosted on another Hyper-V node
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Expose Host and concurrent FlashCopy limits via CLI

Products that manage the V7000 and family would benefit from knowing the host and concurrent flashcopy limits of the device so that they can warn the user as these limits are approached. These limits today vary by firmware version and hardware (e....
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

label libvol command needs revision

When checkin or labeling lib volumes TSM by default ignores the barcode even if one is present. There is no confirmation to the user and no indication that what they did isn't using the external label. Soo it is possible that the barcode is differ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Registro de producto

Quisiera registrar el producto en la web de IBM, ¿Como puedo hacerlo?
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM/VE support for vsphere 5.5

What is the road map for TSM for VE to support vsphere 5.5? Currently the latest version of VE 6.4.1 supports up to 5.1
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release