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TSM backup solution for KVM

We are looking for online backup solution for KVM.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Manager support for MS Sharepoint

We are asking to support MS Sharepoint with IBM FlashCopy Manager.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt for the backup/archive client for VMFULL type backups.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Alter TDPO FileSpace delimiter to restore Windows backups on Unix and vice-versa.

TDPO FileSpace delimiter is hard coded. For UNIX, it is "/"; for Windows, it is "\". That prevents TDPO clients on UNIX from accessing backup pieces created with Windows and vice-versa. As a result, FileSpace_Name is prepended by "\" for UNIX and ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

GPFS FPO weighting algorithms

for GPFS FPO, all NSDs within a failure group have the same weighting regardless of the number of disks or characteristics of those disks, Please can you add a feature to enable weighting to be applied. for example if one FG only contains 5 NSDs a...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Delete DBSPACE

cannot easily remove dbspace
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Configurable Read Preference Policy for VDisk Mirrors

Add an option when creating VDisk/Volume mirrors to set the Read preference policy for the mirror. By default the read preference is set to VDisk/Volume copy_id 0. Would like to have an option added to VDisk mirror creation commands that allows fo...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments instant restore via NFS

Full VM instant restore should be possible via NFS for customers without iSCSI storage (eg SAN or VSAN)
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM OC reports same node multiple times

OC reports the same node multiple time making administrators job not very easy.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Define schedule 512 characters limitation

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21584359 Limitation of 512 character when defining a schedule
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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