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    Skip or Exclude Virtual Machine SRM Placeholders

    During a backup of VM's, TSM for VE does not recognize SRM Placeholders as unique and attempts to back them up like a regular VM, but since they are not true VM's, the backups fail. Need a way to have TSM for VE recognize SRM placeholders and skip...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Migrate Inactive Data from StoragePools

    Need the ability to migrate inactive data from storage pools. When large disk pools are used (typically with dedup) and these pools fill, there is no way to automatically migrate data in a selective manner. Using Age based migration rules results ...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    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...
    almost 10 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...
    almost 10 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
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem.

    Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.4
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Add option to SPP to disable automatic connection to IBM update center.

    There's a long timeout when using the Administrative Console before it is possible to click on "Updates and Hotfix Management" when there's no connection to IBM update center. After this long timeout when it is possible to click and go to the "Upd...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Show warning for mismatching "local fc port mask" upon attempt to add nodes to an existing cluster

    Attempt to add nodes to an existing system failed with the candidate nodes being stuck in "adding" forever. This was caused by the configured "local fc port mask", which restricted the inter-node I/O to certain FC port ids. There was no hint, erro...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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