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    Add options for type of ESX snapshot in TSMVE

    Would like the ability to take non-quiesce snapshots with TSMVE in our ESX environment. I've been told snapping without an OS quiesce is a supported option in ESX and we'd like to be able to throw that flag for select VMs.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Increase size of volume capacity field in in SVC GUI's volume details sub-window

    This request refers to SVC's new code level 7.3 and related communication with the new products team: in the SVC GUI the capacity field, which is included in the "create volume main view" (please see volume details sub window) is in some cases too...
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Ensure LAN_FREE when NEXTpool is used

    In a situation where a customer sets up a policy so that data may go to 2 different storage pools, and uses the MAXSIZE parameter of a storage pool to determine where data is placed, the ability to access the 2nd storage via LAN_FREE is only deter...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Additional parameter for TSM BA client to specifically identify a given VM for backup.

    The TSM BA client assumes that all VMs in a vSphere estate have unique names, and uses the VM's name as the only means of selecting an individual VM for backup. However, vSphere allows for multiple VMs to exist with the same name. This is particul...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Occupancy not reporting on objects stored in the TSM database

    The Query Occupancy or Select from Occupancy commands do not report on backup objects stored within the TSM database.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    SVC/V7000 lshost / lsvdisk enhancements

    would it be possible to track who and when a host / vdisk were created and potentially updated? I know much of this is in the audit log, but that has limited retention.
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Add Support FlashCopy Backup and Clone Presets

    The FlashCopy function in Spectrum Virtualize offers backup and clone functions that SCDM currently doesnt support it would be great to have the ability to create SLAs supporting FlashCopy backup and clone in SCDM to add to FlashCopy NoCopy and Fl...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Option to disable HSM recalls into snapshots created for a SOBAR backup

    This RFE addresses an issue with SOBAR regarding HSM and GPFS snapshots.In a GPFS SOBAR procedure, GPFS snapshots are used to freeze the file system temporarily for an image backup. They are NOT used to preserve user data.For this reason and for a...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    TSM Client Throttling During Backup

    A TSM server backing up several clients can not prevent large amounts of data being ingested from the clients. Resource utilization can be adjusted in order to effect resources on the client, but not, to control data transferred. The mount points ...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    DRP TSM :

    Some customers save the VM data on tape. They use the stgpool VMCTLFILESTGPOOL (control file) to accelerate the restore. Macro "VMCTLFILESTGPOOL.VOLUMES.DESTROYED" should be added in "RECOVERY.SCRIPT.DISASTER.RECOVERY.MODE".
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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