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Need to be able to configure Raid with 3+P within the GUI interface for all storage on the V7000. (SYS4957)

Need to be able to configure Raid with 3+P within the GUI interface for all storage on the V7000.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 to have options to better handle battery recondition issues

The customer requirement is to ask adding options to bypass battery failure, do not shut down V7000Description: When aggregated battery power less than 37%, V7000 will gracefully shut down to avoid accidentally cache data lost. But this will lead ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Fastback enhanced scheduling

Update Fastback scheduling to allow enhanced scheduling in line with other TSM products.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Fastback Windows cluster support

Retain changed block mapping after the failover of volumes from one cluster node to the next so that Delta block incrementals are not required. Windows servers are patched and rebooted EVERY month. With a cluster Windows provides a way to eliminat...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 4 Not under consideration

Fastback suite Enhancements

Continue development of Fastback into a 64-bit architecture.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 3 Not under consideration

Isbank need for Triton on SVC

Isbank, which is one of the biggest SVC customers in Turkey (approximately 6PB) favors the "EasyTier Server" technology (IBM name Triton) which is valid only for DS8870 with AiX on System-p.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SAP HANA cloning with TSM ERP

For SAP on DB2 and Oracle TSM ERP provides support to create a copy of a database instance (with a different SID) on a another system. This functionality is missing for SAP HANA.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

if Vsphere is unable to make a quiesed snapshot (for example because of a vss writer), the whole backup fo the vm is abort

TSM for VE instructs the vsphere server to create a quiesed snapshot of a vm. if for some reason (for example the vss writers has a error) it cannot make a quiesed snapshot it will stop the entire backup. regardless of the other disk or data that ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Support for NFS filesystem in backup client

Backing up NFS filesystems is apparently not supported. This is despite other products such as snapdiff on Netapp depending on it.    This means that snapdiff is not supported either. I would like to backup my Netapp filers in ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

Client side knowledge of mpools for SVC mdisks.

This request was originally submitted in FITS via MR0317085124 in 2008. It was rejected due to the assignee not knowing who to send it to. It was resubmitted in 2013 via MR0829133927. I've now been told that this should be submitted via this tool ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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