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AIX JOURNAL-BASED BACKUP CAUSES "MISC KERNEL HEAP" MEMORY CONSUMPTION (APAR IC97751)

The "filepath" kernel extension used to monitor file system change activities allocates kernel heap memory for each file accessed on the system and keeps that memory until the system is rebooted. On systems with many files this memory consumption ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

AFM support for immutable and appendOnly mode in GPFS

The customer requests a design change because there is a valid use case where they require setting files to immutable or appendonnly on the IW cache (to prevent tampering of human genome information stored in such files) which means that the files...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Integration between Clusters Oracle and Microsoft and IBM SVC Replication

We have defined a transformation project in Strategic Outsourcing for migration of Petabytes of SAN Disk from OEM disk boxes to SVC (Tiered backend). Customer has implemented several Oracle Solaris 10 Clusters with Hitachi Replication. These clust...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC/V7000 GUI call home paging

The SVC/v7000 GUI when a drive fails, the unit calls home and pages as it should. However, the drive most of the time cannot be replaced immediately for several reasons such as waiting on parts, rebuilds, or better time of day. What happens is tha...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enhance exclude/include Single Disks processing during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of virtual machines specified using wild cards.Currently exclude/include.vmdisk statements containing wild cards a...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

Enhancing TMS4VE vCloud support to select destination datastore/datastore cluster in restore wizard

Implementing a dialogue to select destination datastore/datastore cluster when resoring a vApp with showing up the status enough or not enough space available like RFE 47160.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Intoducing datastore clusters in TSM4VE incl. status in initating restore process

Providing the datastore cluster name when recovering a vm in a vcenter environment. Implementing a dialog drill down to select datastore cluster or datastore with displaying available space. There should also be status symbol for enough or not eno...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Enhancing TSM4VE vCloud support to delete an existing vApp while restoring it

Enhancing the restore wizard to allow to specify an option to delete an existing vApp before restoring it and recreating while restoring it.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing TSM4VE vCloud support

Enhancing VCloud support to restore a single vm into an existing vApp in a vCloud environment.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Showing up vm size in the plugin/web gui interface while initiating restore wizard

Implementing the size information in the restore wizard vm source panel like in the backup/archive client gui.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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