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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

Multiple Instances of webUI on Different Proxy Nodes for the Same Datacenter

ISP4VE should be able to install and configure multiple instances of the vSphere GUI, on multiple proxy nodes, that have access and control over the same datamovers and VMware datacenters.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

clin method to create vdisk w/ all avail space

Need an easy method added to the cli to allow creation of a vdisk from all available space in an mdiskgrp. Maybe -0 could be used and system can figure out total, avail space to use
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center not show pre and post schedule failed

When preschedule or postschedule fail, Schedules appear as succesfull in Operation Center. To find wich pre or postschedules that failed, we have to use the comand line to query event and find which one are in Error Status 8.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

provide alternative method to CBT for incremental backups

Due to the fact that there are multiple issues with VMware CBT function I recommend giving the TSM admin the choice of an alternative method for creating incremental backups, e.g. other backup products can make use of a CRC per disk block in order...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

enable/disable use of CBT on VM machine level

Due to the fact that there are multiple issues with VMware CBT function I recommend giving the TSM admin the choice of selecting "use CBT yes/no" independent of the chosen backup method on a "per VM" level, e.g. as a "VMNOCBTUSAGE=VM1; VM2; VM3"
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Remove Active Directory membership requirement for 7.1.3 VE File Restore Portal

To use the ISP4VE 7.1.3 File Restore Portal, the vBS server must be a member of the active directory environment managing the authentication of the VMs protected by ISP. We would like this requirement removed. It should be possible to allow the vB...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration