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Storage Protect Family

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BackupSet tape Migration

We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add search option to backup VMs.

Adding option to search for VM's instead of opening each and every ESXI in order to find our VM.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for VE-Remove 8 TB VMDK snapshot backup Restriction or Extend snapshot backup of VMDK from 8TB to 64 TB

We would like to have IBM enhance IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments product and remove this restriction/limitation to fail the snapshot backup of VMDK which is grater then 8 TB in size. We would like to have IBM remove this limitation/...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Loss of change block tracking files

Implement a mechanism allowing in the event of loss or corruption of CBT files not to redo a full backup.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add maximum parallel sessions for NDMP backups

Limit the number of parallel backup sessions for NDMP backups of NetApp (or any other) NAS node.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Get actual data size of data stored using API

TSM should provide the actual size of the data object stored using the TSM API. Possible solutions:A) update the size value after the transfer completes with the actual size (preferred).B) introduce a second size value (one: allocated, other: actu...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Issue taking VM snapshot using TDP for VMWare for vmdk size greater than 2TB

Hello Team, We have an environment where we have TSM server(6.3.4) based on AIX 6.1 OS. We have a proxy server which is based on Windows 2008 R2 Standard. We have installed TSM for BA Client 7.1 and TDP for Virtual Environments 7.1 on the Proxy se...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Better handling of events when schedules overlap

When a node is busy with a long-running schedule, several schedules for the same node might be missed - for example when having hourly incremental backups, and a full backup is running.It would be desirable, if the TSM server could "bypass" these ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Lanfree Backup to COS/S3/Blob Storage

Enable Lan free backup support for Multi Cloud. Allow nondedup container pool.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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