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TDP for VE - DP for Hyper-V to include backup for both VHD and VHDX formatted guests.

If the TDP for VE - DP for Hyper-V is installed, you are limited to backup IFFULL or IFINCR only guests in VHDX format. To both backup VHD and VHDX formatted guests on a single Hyper-V host. If you want to backup both VHD and VHDX hyper-V guests w...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Silent mode for STAT tool

With the Heatmap STAT tool would be the ability to have it run in silent mode. In its current state, it has to be run interactively and someone has to hit return for it to complete which makes scripting difficult.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TSM for MAIL Exchange - DAG Passive DB not HEALTHY not backed up

It looks like 2 databases (one healthy and one unhealthy) need to be backed up, we skip the unhealthy one and back up the healthy one. Then we return success (RC = 0), because we backed up the healthy one successfully. This is by design. I think t...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Custom values for failover server (TSM Client node)

Allow custom settings for failover server in client dsm.sys Current soultion will overwrite failover server settings in dsm.sys A few possibilites arise:- Publish values for each node from the node definition on the tsm server- Allow per node a cu...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

New kind of pool: combination of Primary and Active Data

As it is today we can have a Primary pool, which receives (and maybe maintains) several versions of an object and an Active Data Pool, which expires and then removes older versions of objects as new ones are backed up. And with this at least two c...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

VDISK mirror status monitoring

- vdisk mirror syn status - want to be able to see when the 2 copies for the mirror are in/out of syn via log - vdisk mirror parameter adjustment - latency vs. redundancy each have a timer setting for suspend....
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TSM cannot handle the backing up chroot Linux files natively

TSM not backing up:[root@lppdns01v ~]# ll -d /u01/chroot/etc/nameddrwxr-x--- 2 root named 4096 Jun 9 2014 /u01/chroot/etc/named[root@lppdns01v ~]# ll -d /u01/chroot/usr/lib64/binddrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 9 2014 /u01/chroot/usr/lib64/bind[ro...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Export map support for mmcesdr

The mmcesdr command that is used in 4.2 or later to set up protocols (NFS, SMB and Object) disaster recovery via AFM allows you to specify the secondary target with the --ip-list parameter as: “a comma separated list of public IP addresses on the ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

DP for Mail - Exchange: Backup multiple databases independently

Exchange database backup is launched as transaction from Exchange side of view - when all databases backup is started, databases are processed sequentially one-by-one. Until last database is backed up it is not possible to run LOG backup (type INC...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Writable snapshots on Spectrum scale for DR testing

Customers are requesting writable snapshots on Spectrum Scale in order to simulate DR testings.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration